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  • Interior Minister Threatened Police, Considering Resigning

    Interior Minister Threatened Police, Considering Resigning

    Interior Minister Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir reportedly threatened the former police commissioner with an investigation of her own, and her assistants tried to influence his statements to the press. This and more has come to light in a new letter from the Parliamentary…

  • Poet Tattoos Demand That Minister Resigns

    Poet Tattoos Demand That Minister Resigns

    Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Poet Bragi Páll Sigurðarson just disclosed his new tattoo. It is situated on his right thigh, just above the knee. Unlike most tattoos, this one is written in Times New Roman. One sentence, split in two lines, it…

  • What If Sunday is on the Phone to Monday?

    What If Sunday is on the Phone to Monday?

    Nothing like a country that every day walks further down the path of its own inexorable decline. Nothing better than an ever more provincial country run by a rotating crew of the same incompetents, dishonest, corrupted by their support of a permanently…

  • Ask Not on Whom the Sun Shines

    Ask Not on Whom the Sun Shines

    If the State Prosecutor decides to take the Interior Ministry to court, for breach of confidentiality, slander, and abuse of public office against two asylum seekers, the Capital Area Police will in all likelihood handle the criminal investigation, as it has until…

  • Might Need To Investigate Interior Minister

    Might Need To Investigate Interior Minister

    New Police Commissioner of Reykjavík, Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, could possibly be in charge of investigating the Interior Minister Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir’s role in the now-infamous leaked memo case despite the fact that she personally appointed the new Police Commissioner, reports RÚV. As reported, Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir…

  • Ministry Leak Suspect Found, Media Still Not Obliged To Reveal Source

    Ministry Leak Suspect Found, Media Still Not Obliged To Reveal Source

    A new ruling from the Supreme Court shows that police investigations of the Ministry of the Interior have led to a potential suspect, called “B”, who may have leaked a memo to select members of the press that proved to contain falsehoods…