In response to people aggressively stating the same false allegations.

1. Miranda was denied a lawyer.

>> False. He refused the lawyer after it was offered and confirmed it in his appeal and his subsequent account.

2. The Guardian accused the GCHQ of merely conducting a PR stunt.

>> False. Guardian admitted it was not a PR stunt.

3. No laws exist that pertain to the destruction of magnetic media holding classified data.

>> False. Too many statutes and policy papers to list *again*

4. No other countries have similar laws

>> False. Posters from Australia and the USA and Commercial organisations have confirmed it is exactly the same in their countries. Posters working with List X companies have confirmed the exact same legal environment.

5. I am a shill.

>> So false it is absurd. I disagreed with JTRIG, advocated free press and refuse to disparage the Guardian and wrote a lengthy article about questioning the intelligence services. I am so much of a shill I purposefully sabotaged my own shilling with a failed iAMA on Reddit and links to my own startup.

6. Intelligence Service had no right to detain Miranda

>> False as per the ruling of the High Court.

7. Intelligence Service had no right to seize magnetic media containing classified information.

>> False as per High Court ruling.

8. Intelligence Services were under orders. IE Nuremberg Argument.

>> False. Intelligence Services are not bound by the Military Act of 2011. They are not under orders.

9. Intelligence services would have sent gunmen into the Guardian to claim their property.

>> So false it is nearing Hollywood levels of nonsense.

10. I am anti-Snowden, pro-NSA

>> False. Never stated my leaning either way. Merely described the circumstances that lead to hard drives being destroyed.

11. I am a liar / Walter Mitty / fantasist etc

>> False. Served 8 years in military intelligence as an EW OP, Operations Analyst and then Counter Intelligence operator. Full reports and SC and NATO SC clearances with lapsed DV clearances. Regardless of accusations, I *know* my service record is genuine.

12. I have invented the law.

>> False. Consider for a second the absolute ludicrous nature of this thread. Just rationally consider it. It is highly likely that only one person on the thread (me) has *ever* been responsible for the destruction of magnetic media containing compromised material of classification. I wrote about it on Quora (verified by Marc and for Urban Times (credentials verified by the Editorial Team) and I have explained why it happened. I have not defended the law or advocated it, merely explained it. And there is an entire thread of people claiming that they know better and, brilliantly, some of them are not even British. The did a cursory Google search, did not read anything and decided I was lying.

The best part is a poster above actually linked to a document which word for word proved exactly what I had posted. He was using it as some sort of evidence I was lying! It was a baseline policy document directing you to the legislation of information breaches and destruction of IT...

If ever there was a thread evidencing the reasons against Democracy it is this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy#Irration...