posted on May 26, 2009

UK: State 'spying on Heathrow critics' as dossiers compiled of legit

By: Ian Drury
Published: May 25, 2009
Source: Daily Mail

Civil servants are compiling dossiers on opponents of Heathrow Airport expansion and handing them over to police, it emerged yesterday.

Communications staff at the Department for Transport are gathering data on legitimate objectors to the £9billion third runway and offering the information to Scotland Yard.

Last night, Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker warned that the activities of the DfT's supposedly non-partisan civil servants were another step towards a 'Stasi-like police state'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187167/State-spying-Heathrow-critics-dossiers-legitimate-objectors-runway-handed-police.html