Can the state, especially when it is implicated in killing, be trusted as the arbiter of what should remain confidential?

The Security Service, MI5, made “multiple” unlawful applications for phone data in an attempt to identify the confidential sources of a former BBC journalist, a London court has heard. The ...

MI5 has blocked the release of intelligence over the murders of four Catholics in Northern Ireland more than 30 years ago, prompting a coroner to halt an inquest. Relatives of the victims accused the ...

MI5, the UK’s intelligence and security agency, announced Wednesday a significant reduction in the terrorism threat level for Northern Ireland (NI)-related terrorism, lowering the threat level from ...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s security services protected a top spy planted within the Irish Republican Army when they knew he was wanted by police for murder, and continued to suppress the truth about the ...

A former BBC journalist who exposed the involvement of MI5 in concealing evidence of abuse at the Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland was repeatedly placed under electronic surveillance by the ...