Comeuppance ! All this aggro with the Met goes back to Green's dirty tricks - skirting the edges of criminality - against his Labour opponents
(For those who have forgotten the background from 2006)
Whatever your political views, dirty tricks this extreme have no place in democratic politics - Green was near Nixonian
Article BEFORE Green's resignation
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/damian-green-decade-long-feud-met-officer-bob-quick
The decade-long feud between Damian Green and Bob Quick, now coming to a head with a Cabinet Office investigation into Green,
can be traced back to a day in 2006 when a young civil servant working in Jacqui Smith’s Home Office was allegedly told by the now first secretary of state [Green, now resigned] to get “as much dirt on the Labour party, the Labour government as possible”.
Christopher Galley had approached Green’s then boss, David Davis, who was the shadow home secretary, saying he was a committed Conservative and was willing to leak material.
Davis introduced Galley, who was then working in immigration, to Green, who was the Tory immigration spokesman
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Over the course of the next two years Galley got a job in the home secretary’s private office
and passed at least 31 separate documents, some classified restricted,
from the heart of Smith’s department including from her private office’s inbox and private outer office safe.
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Green made maximum use of the documents to secure damaging headlines in the Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph and other papers.
The sustained and high-profile campaign went far beyond the normal trade in leaks between whistleblowing civil servants and opposition MPs – with claims that some of the leaks involved national security.
The Cabinet Office called in Scotland Yard to investigate.
Quick, an assistant commissioner who as head of the SO15 unit covered politically sensitive specialist operations, was instructed to take on the job.
< so, that's how Green's "extreme" porn stash was uncovered, which eventually has caused his downfall - #NoSympathy >