Date published: 2008/07/08
The BBC says:
The former head of MI5 has dismissed government plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held to 42 days as not "workable".
Baroness Manningham-Buller, who stepped down from the role last year, told peers she disagreed on a "practical basis as well as a principled one".
But the government said terror attacks were a "clear and present danger".
The House of Lords is widely expected to block the plan, which passed through the Commons by just nine votes in June.
The government wants to extend the maximum period a terror suspect can be detained without charge from 28 to 42 days - it says this is needed to deal with increasingly complex plots.
Wow, even the security services are against Gordon Brown. But hey, he can look tough on terror, so he'll stick with his 42 days unless some more Labour MPs decide to put the interests of the country above the interests of Gordon Brown.
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