BBC spent £28m of licence-fee payers’ money gagging 500 staff by Max Keiser and Stacy HerbertJune 19, 2013April 15, 2020078 The BBC has used licence fee payers’ money to buy the silence of more than 500 staff with payouts of up to £500,000 each. MoD serves news outlets with D notice over surveillance leaks Why haven’t others been following up the Guardian’s Snowden stories? Hague issued a “D notice”: http://t.co/Ac08combv1” < — ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 19, 2013