MAIL Online: The man behind the sale of MPs' expenses claims broke his silence last night to reveal he wanted to expose the system to its 'rotten core'.
John Wick, a former SAS officer, said he was proud of his role as a whistleblower.
He claimed that he acted because campaigners were being frustrated in their attempts to access full details of how taxpayers' money was being spent.
And so much of the information which Parliament was preparing to release this summer was redacted that many of the worse scams and claims would have gone undetected.
Mr Wick – who commanded a British anti-terrorism team during his ten-year military service – is now the head of a corporate intelligence company which specialises in negotiating the release of hostages in foreign war zones.
Suggesting he had been motivated by the growth of the surveillance society, he said: 'We’ve reached a stage where they want to know everything about us – I think we're entitled to know about them.' >>> By Michael Lea | Saturday, May 23, 2009
