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 9:32 pm
Brit Abroad, best place for you and so you are in no doubt I wont abbreviate, why don’t you fuck off and tie your kangaroo down mate, transported criminal stock no doubt, and more to the point your beer is as strong as gnats piss, do have a jolly barbie and give my regards to Ned Kelly.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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veritablequandary Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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with all due respect you can fuck off
January 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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what that got to do with anything???? This has nothing to do with garfy as far as i know. This is about fair jumping in every now and then just having a dig at me without any reason. Im happy to drop it if you wish, but i think you know by now if someone attacks me they generally end up worse off
January 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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veritablequandary Says:
508 Jane Says:
“I totally agree with you, Val, the British (English?) people are being betrayed by our own government - and it stinks”
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Which is it, British or English?
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That depends on one’s viewpoint, veritablequandary. Some English people believe in the Union and view themselves as British as well as English, others believe we should leave the Union or that the Union is in such a state of collapse that it would be a kindness to put it out of its misery.
My posting leaves it for the reader to decide which category they fall under.
I personally feel that the English will suffer the worst effects of this because we haven’t any devolved powers,
January 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
527 RedRooster
Totje is right. Give it a rest, chicken.
Nothing personal, you are welcome to roost at my farm.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Hey Red Rooster! How you doing? I really love your posts. Shame you won’t be around next week, I was really hoping to get to know you a bit better. Some of these posters are so damm boring but you (& Steve) are great. So entertaining. Anyway just popped in (keep looking in tho) am off out wiv the girls now into town for some fun! Hope you will be allowed back next week & then we can hav a propper chat. see ya
January 27th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
527
RedRooster,
Garth didn’t know of the conversation we had the evening before about the sexes of a redrooster. She was fair telling him about it.
However, let’s call it a halt now. It’s not worth going into he said-she said- no he said and so on. A new day, a new beginning. Fresh start, no grudges.
Btw mrT is watching “the hunt for the Red October” hmmmm that Sean Connery [is he also a Scot?] jummie
January 27th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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sorry
but it was not me who cast the first stone. That would be “fair” you know the one with a very inapropriate name 
January 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
491 Batman asks:
How long before Anorak is also stopped?
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Anorak is a rock. On that you can rely.
So we have been told.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
466 - Jane
re European Referendum
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Would you like me to transfer a copy of this post to the Forum section of the site where it will enjoy greater ‘visibility’ rather than being ’submerged’ amongst all the comment on the McCann’s and their missing daughter?
January 27th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
519
RedRooster “YUCK”
January 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
517 RedRooster, no you know I don’t “hate” you.
And we are friends, as long as you’re not behaving like a mad redrooster.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Britain has signed ‘blank cheque’ to EU as 31 powers yet to be negotiated.
Daily Mail.
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Support a referendum.
http://www.iwantareferendum.com/?gclid=CJifgayZgpECFRhWMAodsmPiAQ
January 27th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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annie123 Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
1) It has been reported pj’s have evidence Maddie is dead - died in apartment blah, blah.
2)New interogations due next week - members of t9 maybe made aguidos, it is ‘understood’.
3)Wtf are you people doing analysing so called new suspects/sightings if you think Maddie died in the apartment?
4) I have popped in on a daily basis to see what people’s opinions have been on ‘whats in the papers’.
5) Given the majorities of opinions that Maddie died in apartment and new sightings/suspects are a load of bollocks, why waste time and energy debating trash?
6) Ok, most postings on here seem to be about members doing a bit of flirting, using the site as a dating sight - far better than analysing newspapre trash IMO. And the occassional slanging match, it is harder to pin point the genuine daily debates, but don’t mind me. I am waiting for the hoped for arrest of GM & KM over their part in this fiasco.
7) IMO The most important point - a lot of innocent people have/will have their lives disrupted/changed beyond belief due to this circus controlled by the McC’s desperation to hide their crime.
I’m just waiting for this case to come to a conclusion and the guilty brought to justice.
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Good morning and goodbye from Godzone!
Annie’s post contains some salient points (IMO) …….. this forum is surely to debate the issues - have I got that wrong? Maybe some only see it as a forum to show off and bash each other up metaphorically speaking.
My admiration goes to those posters who manage to debate interesting and/or thought-provoking items. … Can’t Say No, Carmen, Jo, Ian, Val to name but a few. Thanks.
Sledgehammer … you are a pain (IMO) and this forum would be much better if you STFU. Why don’t the rest of you ignore him/her? …. it takes up so much time sifting through the dross of these spats.
Sadly, I believe that Madeleine will never be found. I sincerely hope that whatever it was that happened she did not suffer/is not suffering pain or terror.
The British press have shown themselves up badly throughout.
May the truth be told.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
508 Jane Says:
“I totally agree with you, Val, the British (English?) people are being betrayed by our own government - and it stinks”
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Which is it, British or English?
January 27th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Totje.
could you do me a favour??? could you stick that clothes hanger up sledges arse??
January 27th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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Batman Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
A couple of months ago Sky News pulled their ‘Madeleine’ page.
Now Mirror Forum has suddenly been pulled.
Who is pulling these strings?
And more importantly - why?
How long before Anorak is also stopped?
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More than one poster has suggested that legal or government pressure might have been brought to bear on such as Sky News and D Mirror forums. Can’t Anorak shed some light on how things might work by saying whether or not they have had any direct approach or warning from such agencies to date?
January 27th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
do you?? 
anyway i thought we were friends???
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do i have choice, if so i,ll take my chances with garfy (i think) and dont say things like that. You know you dont hate me
January 27th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Batman++++ Perhaps this is the reason that people who want to see justice lawfully executed not imposed, come here, or are you another who thinks those who don’t share your opinion, should be denied their own opinion.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me -
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
January 27th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
513 RedRooster,
Hate you!!! Now where’s me clothes hanger?
Or Garth? [oops that's a serious threat]
January 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
509 Batman
someone please tell me who ######### is?
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I would if I knew.
Everything on Anorak is in code.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
511
Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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thats not my fault
January 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
510
Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
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start what my dear totje??
January 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
504
RedRooster,
No I won’t. Remember we are Fwends?
January 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
500
RedRooster,
Please, do me a favour and don’t start again?!?
January 27th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
someone please tell me who ######### is?
almost afraid to ask though
January 27th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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val Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
463 Jane
David Milliband was interviewed on the Politics Show last week and categorically refused
to have a Referendum. If the mealy mouthed Labour MP”s voted with their conscience
instead of kow-towing to GB and DM etc, we would have a referendum.
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I totally agree with you, Val, the British (English?) people are being betrayed by our own government - and it stinks. Agree with you about CND too.
Watch this video on Devil’s Kitchen which shows the Miliband brothers being challenged about why they are destroying our democracy - their arrogance is chilling.
http://devilskitchen.me.uk/
Its under a piece entitled, ‘We the people…’
Faced with arrogance and greed among our politicians like that shown in this video, we, the people, must stand up and be counted - and make our voices heard. We’ve fought for our country and democracy before and we’ve won, we must can - and must - do it again, albeit peacefully.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
497 Remigius Says:
“NOt even Metodo is interested in him. They are too busy hunting down eggman and pigman and now, cockleman. Ahem. It does sound a bit rude, doesn’t it?”
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On the other hand, he would like confess — unlike eggman, pigman and cockleman.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
499
Batman
“Keep you in the the dark, you know they all pretend”
“What if I said I’m not like the others, What if I said I’m not just another one of your plays, you’re the pretender, What if I said I will never surrender”
January 27th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
497 Remigius Says:
NOt even Metodo is interested in him. They are too busy hunting down eggman and pigman and now, cockleman. Ahem. It does sound a bit rude, doesn’t it?
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indeedy do