Madeleine McCann: Duarte Levy, Clarence Mitchell And The Daily Mirror
DUARTE Levy writes on the case of Madeleine McCann. He alleges that that Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ PR adviser, is “using the Government’s services to keep watch on journalists and forum participants.” Says Mr Levy:
Clarence Mitchell, the McCann’s PR adviser and spokesman, continues to make use of the British government’s services despite having officially resigned from his position as director of the Media Monitoring Unit*. The accusation comes from a Home Office source who has stated that the outgoing director had called upon his former service to keep a watch not only on several journalists but also on the behaviour of participants in a list of forums and blogs considered to be “highly detrimental to the image of the McCanns and that of the British government”.
Can what Mr Levy alleges be true? And if it is, why would it be a big deal for the McCanns’ spokesman to keep an eye on the web, and get what help he can? Mr Levy continues:
Clarence Mitchell, a former journalist for the Daily Express and the BBC, was seconded by the Foreign Office to act as a liaison officer between the media and Madeleine’s parents. Through the intermediary of the respective British embassies, it was he who organised the McCann’s visits to the Vatican, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam and Rabat.
Since the very early days, media monitoring has been an important part of Clarence Mitchell’s work. While the McCann’s were in Praia da Luz, it was he who decided to separate journalists according to nationality: the British first, and the Portuguese last.
Today, the McCann’s PR campaign relies more than ever on monitoring public opinion: over the past few days several UK forums and blogs have been shut down due to “anti-McCann” comments. Amongst them is the Mirror newspaper’s forum, which erased all comments about the case without warning when the participants started to debate Home Office interference.
No response from Mr Mitchell is quoted in Mr Levy’s email to us. But why did the Daily Mirror close its forum? Anyone from those forums care to tell us what they know?
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January 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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Swannie Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
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January 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Swannie,
Are they going to ship them out in a tennis bag?
January 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
NEWSFLASH
Metodo3 ‘investigators’ to have their 40 ‘Cuddle Cat’ replicats replaced by 40 ‘Cuddly Menacing Maniacal Monsters’ - just to help them cope better.’
January 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
RR
Too right but I am concerned that the social services and people (neighbourgs etc…dont do anything about them.
I am disgusted…I shall have a chupito (a shot) to cheer me up…..
aw1720
January 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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val Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
252 Chenier
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I think that at the outset there was what appeared to be a small scale operation run by someone’s relative, but the income is dwarfed by the size of public donations to the Fund.
There were a number of articles yesterday questioning the alleged expenditure in Morocco and noting that all requests by journalists to see one of the many people Metodo 3 claims to have working for them have been refused.
Admittedly, since all of M3’s people are supposed to be squeezing their cuddlecats, this may have been simple concern for the journos health when confronted by that spectacle…
January 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I thought there would be an interesting discussion about the implication of the Clarence Mitchell story and his links still to the Government and why this is the case. But it would appear that exactly as Ian, etc have described the aim of the irrational Sledgehammer, etc has been to divert attentio, then this thread has gone into the non-story from Lori Campbell. In the light of the current swathe of sleaze and interference from Gordon Brown in almost every single matter of our lives I would have people would be coming to the conclusion that nothing is beyond them.
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Mods and Admin
Porfiry, why not compose a pice and put it up in the Forums?
There is already an item by AGW on govt sleaze over there http://www.anorak.co.uk
January 27th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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jo Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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im sure pinky would be able to offer an innocent explanation to any qusetions you may ask him. Hey mr mcfuckin clarry mcwanker mitchell???
January 27th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
*sleeping
I have to go again
Now my stomach feels bad
Till later
January 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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chenier
Everytime , i think of a child left sliping alone ,it just makes me sick !
They have nightmares ,they need mumy or pappy to tell them ,that’s all ok ,that it was a dream, they need us to reassure them.to give them warm and afection.
This all case makes me sooooooo sick
January 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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jo Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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very good question and one that many people here are asking….shame the bloody social services are seemingly obviously as corrupt as the uk government imo
January 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
RR
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zzzzz….zzzz….zzzz…. thats the best approach!
(cant copy & paste anymore…a clue? or shall I ask Clarrie?
January 27th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Chenier
This is so cruel,so sad…… can the social services in the uk DO something about the twins??
January 27th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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jo Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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January 27th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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zzzzzz
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snore
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January 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
From Swannies link
“We believe the public will hold the key. Someone knows something,” Mr McCann added.
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Oh yeah???? you,mccLooney,are the biggest fool I will NEVER have the disgrace to meet….
So,its up to the public,who knows “something” and feeling guilty,of course to find Madeleine”s BODY…not the truth
January 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
252 Chenier
Didn”t Stevo (that reminds me, he has”nt been around very often lately) find out the
wrist bands etc were being sold from a garage in the wilds of Scotland by a Policeman and
his son?
Another sleuth, can”t remember his name suggested the money from the Fund was being
syphoned off and since the Company set up was Private, unless a lot of the donors got together
and asked to see the Accounts nothing could be proved, IMO of course.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Mods and Admin/108, so what you telling me that the Portuguese can’t put a stop to it, why, no evidence, or not enough evidence to execute a Euro warrant. You know one of those things used to apprehend the perpetrators of dastardly deeds. After all they did have them in for questioning, do you think they may have let them slip through their fingers, rather glaring mistake if that is the case, doesn’t one agree.
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Mods and Admin
What is the time scale for police enquiries to be completed in? We are not even footing the bill, the Portuguese nation is.
Its blindly obvious the PJ are not finished yet, so shall things just be allowed to happen in the time it takes.
There can’t be A N. Other calling the tune , surely all parties want justice for Madeleine, do they not?
January 27th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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Swannie Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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It’s stomach turning.
I find it extraordinary that two people who trained as doctors could inflict that sort of damage on two small children.
Star charts, fine.
Naughty step, fine.
Your sister taken by a monster that nobody can find and may be after you; absolutely stomach turning.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
From Swannies Link;
“Police say they are looking for a white man aged 35 to 40 who was seen in Praia da Luz on the night Madeleine vanished. ” - how old is gerry???
January 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
270…chenier
I think that the Police Forces of any of the countries which “search” for
“sightings” which derive from M3 or Team McCann sources, should
forward the costs of any such proven false “leads” to the Fund.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
223 Ian
Because the PJ opted for the “accidental death” theory, havn”t they negated their chance of prosecution for “neglect”
January 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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Swannie Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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we all know who the monsters are
January 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
269 Swannie
Thanks for that link. Almost at the end is this …
“He said the fighting fund which has raised almost £300,000 had allowed them to set up a “comprehensive legal team”, but at present the family was happy to follow advice not to call in private investigators.”
At only 3 weeks after the disappearance they had set up a legal team !
January 27th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
202 Delboy
I agree, our Government is corrupt and the public is too disinterested to do anything about
it. The latest accused of taking money without declaring it to the Electoral Commission is
Alan Johnson. It”s only supposed to be £3,000 and he emphatically denies it, we shall see.
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
January 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Good to see the Chilean police force has time on its hands:
‘Cash said that a team of five detectives investigated in the area of Vicuña, after a man, whose identity was not disclosed, warned of the alleged sighting of a girl of similar appearance to Madeleine in the museum at Gabriela Mistral this village, located 530 kilometers from Santiago.’
Though the little girl’s father may be less than thrilled with his description:
‘Last Sunday the British press published a new robot portrait of the alleged abductees Madeleine. The drawing, in charcoal produced by a specialist trained in the FBI, showed a man sinister thin face, long hair, mostacho, thick eyebrows and large teeth.’
Not very flattering, is it?
January 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Told you who the monsters were!!
“She was running around shouting, ‘Be a monster, be a monster’ and we would chase her.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6692161.stm
January 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Mods and Admin
I am like you. When I really needed antibiotics, I took them, and I am glad I did ! Now off until tonight.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Mods and Admin
I take it a lot like our Daily Gossip and Bullshit Bible?
January 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
261
Matt
mmmmmm
well
ya know what i mean 
January 27th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
259
Great
Marie Nicholas
Have a nice afternoon