Wife Leaks Personal Info About Britain's Top Spy on Facebook
Wife Leaks Personal Info About Britain's Top Spy on Facebook
Posted 07/07/2009 at 1:54pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Sir John Sawers, the incumbent British ambassador to the UN, is soon going to be the country’s top spy, the chief of MI6. However, the missus doesn’t reckon it is a big deal. Ah! Humble Lady Sawyers. She has caused quite a stir by posting family photographs featuring Sir Sawers on a Facebook account with minimal security settings.
Lady Shelley Sawers probably forgot that though posting family photographs on Facebook is a fundamental right of every free human being, it should be exercised in moderation when those photographs can betray certain vital details about your country’s top spy – the location of his London flat, personal details of his children and that he is a beach bum with trunks that this writer can neither exalt nor properly deride. The pictures have now been removed from Facebook.
The British government has a decent sense of humor and has downplayed the entire incident, although the pesky British tabloids certainly think it is serious stuff. “It is not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband quipped in a TV interview.
Miliband also liked the entire idea of having Sir Sawyer's photographs on Facebook as it paints a more human picture of the soon-to-be MI6 chief. Facebook is certainly making counterespionage very easy.
Image Credit: ITN
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Havok
July 08, 2009 at 12:45pm
Oh Facebook,
How I love thy way of ruining careers,
All our secrets on it are for thee...
OMGWTFBBQ
Caboose
July 08, 2009 at 12:42pm
He's the head of MI6, the new M if you will. I don't think the head of MI6 goes in to the field. That's left up to the 00 agents, like Bond and Trevelyan, until Trevelyan betrays MI6... Anyway, I'm sure the head of MI6 is going to have his face in the press plenty of times, more so than the agents anyway.
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
I Jedi
July 07, 2009 at 5:52pm
Well, give the woman some ease, guys. Did she do something wrong? In the eyes of the government, yes. However, she's not an Mi6 agent, or FBI/CIA.. She shouldn't be held that accountable. I serioously doubt anything will ever come of this, as name is already public knowledge.
bingojubes
July 07, 2009 at 4:45pm
he should soon disassociate himself with the blabbermouth of a wife. cause, you know, as a spy, he's gonna get all the ladies anyways wherever he goes - least that's what i think happens, right?
parliament should get his wife after the disassociation for committing some kind of national security leak to set her straight.
wbuckley
July 07, 2009 at 3:03pm
I have only two initial words coming to mind when I look at this: EPIC Fail
Seriously, this is not the type of information you post publicly without thinking over it at least a few times, and in this case, checking with officials to see if it's acceptable.
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