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Originally Posted by Raistlin
I'll think you will find that they were most certainly NOT authorised to take that particular document out of the office. Their authorisation will have extended only as far as to grant them access to it and to retain it (in an appropriately secured container/location).
I wouldn't want to try to pre-empt the outcome of any investigation, but I would be quite happy at this stage to guess that the decision to remove that document from its appropriately secure environment was most likely down to the individual and would almost certainly not have been authorised.
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True, it does actually state this in the latest BBC report having just read it. It would still be worrying if this individual were removing hard copies of Secret documents from Whitehall, strict procedures or not I would at least hope they were electronically encrypted.