Mr. Gowdy. Who was handling Chris Steele, who at the Bureau?
Mr. Ohr. I don't know who was officially his handler. I know one of the people he was talking with who may have been his handler was Special Agent Mike Gaeta.
MI5 given the go-ahead to allow informants to commit crimes
HUMAN rights campaigners today vowed to appeal against a “knife-edge” divided tribunal ruling which allowed MI5 to continue authorising informants to commit serious criminal offences.
Privacy International, Reprieve, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and the Pat Finucane Centre took legal action against the government over a policy the groups claim “purports to permit agents to participate in crime” potentially including murder, kidnap and torture.
The campaign groups said the policy effectively “immunises criminal conduct from prosecution” and asked the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to declare the policy unlawful and grant an injunction to restrain further conduct.
But the tribunal today ruled the policy lawful by a 3-2 majority.
