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MPs probe claims of a 'cover up' surrounding resignation of GCHQ boss who had helped paedophile priest escape jail

Parliament's security watchdog has launched a probe into 'cover-up' claims around the resignation of GCHQ boss Robert Hannigan first revealed by The Mail on Sunday.

Mystery surrounded the 2017 departure of the spy chief until this newspaper discovered he had helped a paedophile priest escape jail by giving him a character reference, only to see him reoffend.

Theresa May was accused of a cover-up after allowing the powerful director of Britain's listening station and largest spy agency to quietly resign when alerted that Hannigan's connection to Father Edmund Higgins had been unearthed by a sister intelligence agency.

At the time of his departure, Mr Hannigan had cited 'family reasons', with the crucial Higgins link kept secret even after the paedophile was jailed for child abuse in 2018.

Now Parliament's intelligence and security committee is investigating whether the Mr Hannigan – at the time a Foreign Office official – used Foreign Office headed notepaper for the 2013 letter defending the disgraced priest, a family friend.

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Former Argentine president on trial for bombing cover-up

On the home page of Argentina's largest Jewish community center is a counter that keeps track of the "days of impunity" since a bomb ripped through the organization's central building, causing it to collapse and leaving 85 dead amid the rubble.

On Thursday, 7,689 days since the 1994 attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, former President Carlos Menem, a former top judge and several others will go on trial for allegedly derailing the investigation.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article30201588.html#storylink=cpy

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Conspiracy anyone? Inside the NSA’s 9/11 cover-up

Magicians wield secrecy on the theater stage in the service of illusions. Spies likewise wield illusion on the world stage in the service of secrecy. So it is with the events behind the attacks of 9/11 where those who question the official story are derided as conspiracy theorists. Thanks to the investigative digging of reporter James Bamford, with the assistance of NSA whistleblowers like Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, the 9/11 crowd can now point to a conspiracy fact: an incredible cover-up that goes all the way to the top of the American intelligence community.