Head of UK’s MI5: Agency is troubling to keep up with mounting terror threats

“I wish life were like Spooks [the TV series] where everything is, a, knowable, and, b, soluble by six people.”

Britain’s MI5 head, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, said so speakinjg about the agencies problems keeping up with tracking all threats to UK interests. Manningham-Buller further said MI5 currently employed 2,800 individuals after growing about 50% since 9/11. The agency, so Manningham-Buller, is tracking 30 imminent UK terror plots. BBC