We're all ears minister

From the Guardian on the Home Secretaries' outburst against the LSE report on ID cards:

"It's a bit rich for a government minister to accuse a university department of spin and disinformation"

Within days it became clear that only one person's reputation had taken a hit. The second reading of the ID card bill gave the home secretary the opportunity to itemise all the flaws in the LSE research. Clarke - and the combined ranks of the Home Office - failed to highlight a single factual error.