Taking workforce diversity to heart. BBC
A senior Tory MP has asked the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5.
Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Home Affairs counter-terror sub-committee, said sources told him six had sought to infiltrate the security service.
Four were ejected at the initial vetting stage but two got "further down the system", he told the BBC.[...]
The MP believes the security services rushed to try and take on Muslim recruits after the 7/7 bombings on London's transport network in 2007.
He told the BBC: "The trouble is when you start recruiting in a hurry... your enemies will try to take advantage of any gaps that have been created."
The former intelligence officer said three separate sources had told him of the claims, which came as no surprise to him.
He said: "Any subversive organisation worth its salt is trying to do to our intelligence agencies what we are trying to do to them, I don't think we should be surprised.
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