A SECRETIVE BRITISH POLICE INVESTIGATION focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents has been designated the code name “Operation Curable,” according to details newly obtained by The Intercept under the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act.
The counterterrorism unit within the London Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Operations division has been conducting the criminal probe for more than two years.
The Metropolitan Police first announced it had launched a criminal investigation related to the Snowden documents in August 2013. About four months later, in December 2013, the force’s then-assistant commissioner Cressida Dick acknowledged the investigation was looking at whether reporters at The Guardian had committed criminal offenses for their role in revealing British surveillance operations exposed in the leaked files.
Since 2013, few new details about the case have been revealed, with police officials attempting to withhold information about the investigation. Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Police repeatedly refused to disclose the status of the investigation on the grounds that doing so could be “detrimental to national security.” But following an intervention from the authority that enforces the U.K.’s freedom of information laws, the force reversed its position in late July and admitted that the probe remained ongoing.
The investigation — Operation Curable, as it’s called — is currently being carried out under the direction of Mark Rowley, the head of the Specialist Operations unit. In the 1990s, Rowley pioneered the development of British police covert surveillance methods as a detective superintendent with the National Criminal Intelligence Service. Recently, Rowley has accused Snowden of undermining the police’s ability to “protect the public and save lives.” He has also asserted that he has no problem monitoring journalists’ communications if he deems it necessary to “chase down criminals.”
It is unclear whether the name Operation Curable has any particular meaning. The Metropolitan Police usually chooses code names for its investigations randomly. In 2008, the BBC reported that the names are selected from a list and that the “aim is to choose names that are completely neutral so they will hopefully be totally unrelated to the case.”
Top photo: Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks to the media outside New Scotland Yard in central London, January 9, 2014.
The UK governance and law enforcment has also asserted that they have no problem monitoring journalists’ communications if he deems it necessary to “chase down criminals.” While entire usa government funds and founds ISIS with the full support of the entire usa congress authorizing the funding arruond the world is clear the kind of criminals the UK is not monitoring. How cozy the ziomasonsatanist have the entire communications hacked in order to continue their mass manipulation and deceit AT LARGE. Disgusting is short- Alejandro Grace Ararat.
show evidence?
I’ll bet the incurable Louise Cypher came up with that name during her stint as a UK MP. Just worthy of mensch’n, I reckon.
Every time she comes up on the telly I just want to back hand her.
So, with the Home Office spending all this effort on Snowden, did it take resources away from chatter that might have headed off something else? Like, say, in Paris?
The impotent rage of a wannabe tyrant, Washington’s little bitch.
Edward Snowden is not a British subject. Edward Snowden revealed that the current British intelligence policies and the current US administration intelligence policies made us less secure. It’s the fault of the Britains for implementing these programs and doing it with us openly. That’s where the criminal charges should go! The British can go sniff the queens arse! I don’t know why they love being her subject? She wouldn’t hesitate throwing everyone of them into a fire to keep it burning so her bunions stay warm……. Idiots!!!
@Phil-
The idiot is you.
You seem to have no idea what Her Majesty does, what power she wields or how much influence in government affairs she has yet you spit vitriol at her like the ignorant little fool that you nad so many Americans are.
Allow me to enlighten the empty, unlit recesses of that tiny cavern you call a mind:
She is a figure head.
She makes good will tours around the world helping to project a face of Britain that the world seems to like seeing. It helps bolster the countries image in a positive manner and keeps other nations friendly to us.
She has NO political power and is forbidden by the full weight of the law from engaging in politics in any way. She is not allowed to express her personal political opinion upon penalty of prosecution. She has NO influence on the UK’s political establishment except as the Voice of the Government as she is forced to read whatever elected ruling Parliaments manifesto is no matter how distasteful she personally finds it, and when it comes to Tories you can see the sick flavour in her mouth as she speaks the words.
She cannot wage war, order spying, influence financial decisions (other than her own personal finances) and most important, now pay attention because you don’t seem to understand this point, she does NOT rule the country.
In any fashion.
She is however a very sweet old women who has led a privileged life that has kept her from being a normal person and forced her to live entirely by ritualistic and difficult protocols established over millenia that take up her time from the moment she awakes till late in the evening most days. As such I do feel some pity for the predicament she was born into, but at least she hasn’t had to worry about living under bridges or anything thanks to that twist of fate.
Now you smug little empty headed hater of what you don’t or can’t understand: piss off.
It appears to be closely related to their abject hubris and (hopefully) ill-advised optimism, imho.
Aha, there it is. Language is a wonderful thing. Securable is word of the day.
Journalism is an irritant to those in power. Fortunately, the disease is Curable.
I hear Jeb can fix it.
This doesn’t seem to be a random naming convention.
Interesting to note that Snowdon revealed that the UK was keeping an eye on Argentina and her Malvinas aspirations. About time Argentina moved on from that old Malvinas chestnut: https://www.academia.edu/17799157/Falklands_-_Some_Relevant_International_Law