Luke Coffey is an American citizen, a former captain in his country's Army, and the founder of the London branch of Censa (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs), a think tank the true character of which may be discerned from the list of members: Matthew Thompson, a former CIA analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence; Jeff Benson, who worked in the US Office of Naval Intelligence; Sean Bielat, who serves in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as an intelligence watch officer; and Paul Crespo, who served as a defence and naval attaché at American embassies in the Balkans, the Gulf and Latin America.
Luke Coffey is also a Special Adviser to Liam Fox. He has not been given full security clearance, and I am reliably informed that he will not be. However, he has a pass giving him access to all areas of the MoD, and he works in an open plan office where he has ready access to any file he wants. Fox is known to favour buying cheap, off the shelf equipment from America, an approach which would destroy thousands of British jobs and put our defence capability wholly at the mercy of the United States for repairs and spare parts.
Michael Gove has at least been exiled to a domestic policy department where he can do nothing more than play about with Toby Young's whites-only schools for people who could afford to go private but are too tightfisted. He would be dangerous if he stood any chance of getting anywhere, but he doesn't. Fox, on the other hand, is very dangerous indeed. So dangerous that he appoints an operative of a foreign intelligence agency as his Special Adviser, a man refused full security clearance by the proper Tories - war-wary, pro-Commonwealth, supportive of British manufacturing, not infatuated with America, concerned for Britain's longstanding ties to the Arab world - who decide these things.
Does Liam Fox have full security clearance? If so, why? After all, it is obvious from whom he took the order to appoint this particular Special Adviser.
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the proper Tories - war-wary, pro-Commonwealth, supportive of British manufacturing, not infatuated with America, concerned for Britain's longstanding ties to the Arab world - who decide these things.
ReplyDeleteWe all know who you are being "reliably informed" by. Isolationist, Empire nostalgic, protectionist, anti-American, anti-Semitic public school spooks. They want rid of Fox and some isolationist, Empire nostalgic, protectionist, anti-American, anti-Semitic public schoolboy in his place, preferably a spook.
It says a lot about who reads this blog rather than how many that they are using you, as well as Paul Staines for the mass market. They don't even have to pay you, you are a true believer.
Arabs are Semites.
ReplyDeleteAnd whoever you have in mind, they are as welcome as anyone else to use the PayPal button on this blog. But you are right, I would not accept, and I have never been offered, any payment to express one opinion rather than another.
The CENSA website is a dead ringer for the Henry Jackson Society website.
ReplyDeleteSurely not? One is the CIA, while the other is a British educational charity with MPs and Peers in it. Surely their websites cannot have been designed, and be maintained, by the same people? The very idea!
ReplyDeleteWow, all I can say is wow... where do you crazy conspiracy theory people come from. You people read way to much into something, yes he is an American but with strong personal ties to the UK. Get over it.
ReplyDeleteThat he is foreign is reason enough for him not to have this job. That he is Censa is more than reason enough for him not to have British Government job.
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