Re: Says it all
"'What are we going to do to ensure we still are needed and stop all our resources being taken away?'
Not:
"As a publicly funded agency, what should we do for the people?"
Can I rephrase her statement as "this trough is almost empty - quick find another one""
No. She said that they were dealing with terrorism as well, and that was obviously getting big during the 1980s, but people didn't know about it so after the end of the Cold War, there was a danger that MI5 would be defunded and all that expertise in plot disruption would be lost.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
