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British minister disposes security-related docs in a public bin
14 Oct 2011 at 08:43hrs | Views
London - A top British government minister has been caught disposing of sensitive security-related documents in a park bin, the Daily Mirror reported on Friday.
The newspaper published photographs showing Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office Minister and key strategist of the ruling Conservatives, throwing papers away, and, on one occasion, handing some to a passing park rubbish collector.
Letwin, one of the closest aides of Prime Minister David Cameron, had discarded more than 100 papers, including some dealing with intelligence matters and the controversial issue of the so-called rendition of terrorist suspects, it claimed.
The papers were reported to date from July to September this year.
"Oliver Letwin does some of his parliamentary and constituency correspondence in the park before going to work and sometimes disposes of copies of letters there.
"They are not documents of a sensitive nature," a spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, the nerve centre of Downing Street, said.
The newspaper published photographs showing Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office Minister and key strategist of the ruling Conservatives, throwing papers away, and, on one occasion, handing some to a passing park rubbish collector.
Letwin, one of the closest aides of Prime Minister David Cameron, had discarded more than 100 papers, including some dealing with intelligence matters and the controversial issue of the so-called rendition of terrorist suspects, it claimed.
The papers were reported to date from July to September this year.
"Oliver Letwin does some of his parliamentary and constituency correspondence in the park before going to work and sometimes disposes of copies of letters there.
"They are not documents of a sensitive nature," a spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, the nerve centre of Downing Street, said.
Source - Daily Mirror | Sapa
