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...about British intelligence is, after all, Peter Wright's Spycatcher. A couple of the stories that he put in there that are complete nonsense are still widely believed: that there was a plot against former Prime Minister Harold Wilson - I now know there wasn't, though there was a file kept on him - and that the head of MI5 for nine years, Sir Roger Hollis, was actually a Soviet agent. The files disprove this too. If you don't have information, you get disinformation...
...there's been no response from @blaneysblarney to the injunction. The real Blaney is already planning his next moves - to try to persuade a British judge to serve a penal notice via Twitter, a more serious move that could result in the jailing of the impostor. He may also file a suit against Twitter. "My aim is to get this taken down, ideally to identify the individual behind it and to set the precedent," says Blaney. (Read: "Brought to You by Twitter...
...flashier role: shirtsleeves rolled up, dark hair slicked back, he's a brash, bullying but well-meaning family man, who has become an expert at justifying the moral compromises demanded by the urban jungle where he works. Craig is the more sensitive of the pair, sporting a file-clerk mustache and drab gray suit, a reformed alcoholic caught between his loyalty and his scruples. They've got their American (if not quite Chicago) accents down pat, but they never preen, or call attention to the against-type casting. It's otherwise known as acting...
...would not be surprised to learn that they stepped up their efforts to catch him once he filed that motion alleging all sorts of misconduct by the judge and by the prosecutor's office as a whole," says Jean Rosenbluth, USC law school professor and former federal prosecutor. "He put them in this position where he made all these allegations and yet they could not be adjudicated because he's a fugitive. He can't file this motion and make all these allegations and expect the DA's office to do nothing about it." (Why the French are outraged...
Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, denied that Polanski's arrest had anything to do with his recent court filings, but rather was part of an ongoing effort to apprehend him. "We've been doing this involving this particular fugitive since one day after the bench warrant was issued in 1978," Gibbons told TIME, "and we've been continuing to do it throughout that time period. There have been other efforts to arrest him, [but] they were unsuccessful. This particular effort was successful. I can't say anything more than that." Los Angeles prosecutors...