“Terrorists have the same rights as the rest of us, but they are limited.” The focus of the Israel-Hamas conflict should be on “winning the hearts and minds” of those ‘terrorised by terrorists’, says David Bickford the former legal director for MI5 and MI6.
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“David Bickford spent his career as the Legal Director for both MI5 and MI6, Britain’s premier intelligence services. The job was to make sure that the agencies complied with legislation, as well as ensuring that the balance of rights between the agencies and the individuals they dealt with was respected. Only recently allowed out of […]
If you’ve been thinking about a career within the intelligence service then you’ve probably wondered what you need to be successful. Thankfully, a former MI5 legal director has provided all the answers, specifically ‘two qualities’ you need to have for the career. David Bickford was a legal director for both MI5 and MI6, ultimately working on […]
“He spent much of his career working in absolute secrecy, even as he fought to bring greater openness to the intelligence services. Now, whether on how he made his wife an unwitting cold war intelligence asset or he went about inviting prospective spies to be interviewed, David Bickford is illuminating at least some of the […]
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