Below is an amendment to an Early Day Motion that I tabled yesterday.
EDM 710
Add at the end
recalls in the interests of balance the great successes of the Bureau in their quality work on exposing many national and international scandals including revealing that the CIA falsely claimed that it was causing zero civilian casualties in drone attacks on Pakistan, confirming that the US had deliberately targeted rescuers in follow-up strikes; applauds the Bureau’s work on deaths in police custody that was rewarded with a 2012 Amnesty International Media Award that revealed that high-profile deaths in police custody had not been included in official statistics and that police continue to use restraint techniques that have long been known to be dangerous; further notes that the Bureau investigated the under spend of European structural funds, reported in detail the misuse of House of Lords facilities and failure of peers to declare their interests and an exposure of the power and influence of the financial lobby plus a valuable investigation of the public relations and lobbying industries; regrets the reduction in spending on investigative journalism by the BBC and congratulates the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for providing valuable service in issues neglected by main broadcasters.
Amnesty International Media Award that revealed that high-profile deaths in police custody had not been included in official statistics and that police continue to use restraint techniques that have long been known to be dangerou
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