Robert Stuart, a tenacious blogger, has been picking away at a scab the BBC would rather leave firmly in place.

His forensic research concerns an edition of the BBC’s flagship investigative current affairs show Panorama called Saving Syria’s Children. It was broadcast more than three years ago, as many in the media were trying to push the British government into intervening in Syria with bombing raids against the Syrian government – in a move that would effectively have bolstered ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria.

Mensch, who is based in New York, said her sources contacted her because of her outspoken backing for the intelligence community. She has, for instance, called Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified documents, “a loathsome traitor.” “They gave me one of the most closely guarded secrets in intelligence,” she said, referring to her sources.

Das Verfassungsgericht will am Freitag seine Entscheidung im Amtsenthebungsverfahren gegen Präsidentin Park Geun-hye bekannt geben.

Time for German parents to have „The Talk“ with their kids. Unprotected sexual activity is probably fine. But casual seeding? That‘s a problem.

TorrentFreak reports that a German court has decided to hold a parent responsible for his child‘s infringing activity. This doesn‘t have much to do with the rightsholder being unable to extract fines from a minor, but rather a perceived parenting failure.

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„We will initiate an investigation if we see evidence of concrete criminal acts or specific perpetrators,“ a spokesman for the federal prosecutor‘s office told Reuters. „We‘re looking at it very carefully.“