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Originally Posted by scastle
Fine. Classify the evidence as Top Secret. Make the judge, jury, barristers and everyone else involved in the case sign the Official Secrets act (thus ensuring they can be charged for treason if it is ever leaked). The government already have procedures in place for doing this (if they did not, they would never be able to charge any spys, or try any case involving the Official Secrets act as a lot of the evidence, by definition, would be classified).
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But the whole reason MI-5 was secret in the first place, is that people on our level can't really comprehend the danger posed by us, and so what we don't know won't hurt us. We can go about our little lives without worrying about who is about to kill us. Like the "Men In Black" principle. Figures are hushed and sketchy at most, but I saw once that apparently England has upto 30 active threats against the country, each and every month, that need action to netralise.
Of course after 9/11 people found out that the intelligence agencies had some prior warnings or indications, and they pressed for a more transparent security service. Now threats are more public (like the Wall Street one), everyone is moaning about the culture of fear.