[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profiles] were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice [official website] who said they would resign if the White House forced them to hand over information gathered during the FBI office search [JURIST report] of US Rep. [read post]

Accordingly, the government have tried to refute the claims (listen to the Home Office minister Tony McNulty and the LSE's Patrick Dunleavy on the Today program of BBC radio 4).Since all ID card data will also be entered into a nationwide database, rumours about government plans to sell these data to help pay for the costs of the scheme (see the report in the Independent on Sunday) will not be helpful for the government's plans either.It should be noted that opposition to the bill… [read post]