Facebook Snares Spy Chief

It's bad enough when criminals on the lam are dumb enough to post Facebook updates, but you'd think the wife of a country's chief of intelligence services would know better.

Apparently not, at least not in Great Britain, where Lady Shelley Sawers, the wife of new MI6 head John Sawers posted all sorts of details onto her Facebook page, including where they lived and worked and galleries of family photos. The information was really just typical, mundane Facebook material, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband quipped: "It is not a state secret that he [Sawers] wears Speedo swimming trunks," but when your job is 'spy', I'd think you'd want to keep as many private details of your family private as possible, since it's rather likely there will be people out there who'd like to do you, or your family, harm.

Mrs. Sawyers Facebook page is now reportedly down, but when the inevitable spoof version pops up, we'll post a link.