Snowdon is a dummy

Oh? So FBI director Hoover did not in fact blackmail both congressmen and Presidents using the then resource of the FBI to get dirt on them?

President Kennedy was not blackmail by Hoover over his love life and Nixon was not fearful of acting against him?

Sorry dear but unlike the good old grassy knoll there was a good solid reason why no one force Hoover out of office and why congress after the Hoover era pass a law limiting how long anyone could be the director of the FBI.

Claims a police officer was threatened with the Official Secrets Act over allegations of child sex abuse relating to Cyril Smith are to be investigated.

The Manchester Evening News has reported claims an officer was warned to keep quiet after he found the former Rochdale MP at a house with two boys.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the unnamed former officer had not reported the claims to police.

But GMP said they would be examined as part of its alleged "cover-up" probe.

Twenty-three people have claimed they were abused by the Liberal MP, who died aged 82 in 2010.

Police said allegations against Smith related to teenage boys in Rochdale between 1960 to 1987.

Northamptonshire Police is also probing claims police released Smith after child pornography was found in the boot of his car on the M1 in the 1980s.

Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "These allegations will be examined by Operation Clifton, a criminal investigation launched by GMP in July 2014 into how previous reports of child sexual abuse were handled or allegedly covered up.

"Clearly there are people who are willing to talk to the media but who have not yet spoken to police."

He appealed for anyone with information about the way authorities including GMP dealt with reports of historical child abuse to come forward.

He also urged victims who suffered abuse in care homes and other institutions who made complaints at the time or who "have suffered in silence" and not reported abuse to contact police.

He said GMP had allocated "considerable resources" to the investigation and was "committed to investigate all the allegations as best we can" in order "to get to the truth".

"GMP has no interest in covering up any of these issues and indeed many of the current members of the force were not serving at the time when some of this is alleged to have occurred," Mr Wiggett said.

On Tuesday, BBC Newsnight reported an undercover police operation that gathered evidence of child abuse by Smith and other public figures was scrapped shortly after the MP was arrested in the 1980s.

Already in October/November 2013 Germany media complained the chicken-hearted (Hasenherzigkeit)German government.
We are a "democratic and social federal state", with "the legislature bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and justice" the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote on November 8, 2013, quoting our constitution. And that report ends with this sentence:"Unwritten [in the constitution] is this principle: the Federal Republic is a very US-fearing country."

an element of conspiracy...like you are a contributor t

Theresa May has said the claims a police investigation into the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith was scrapped, and corruption blocked other historic police operations into child abuse, were “shocking and could lead to criminal prosecutions”.

The Conservative home secretary also told a committee of MPs on Tuesday she hoped immunity from prosecution under the Official Secrets Act will be offered to former police officers and intelligence agents who are prepared to testify about allegations of paedophile rings and other child sex abuse to the police, or to the government’s separate public inquiry.

Unfortunately some people like Bill misinterpret the information they get.