British minister caught trashing documents

A top adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera dumping secret papers in trash cans in a London park, a newspaper says.The Daily Mirror reported it documented Oliver Letwin on at least five occasions in St. James Park binning government documents. Letwin is minister of state for the Cabinet Office, the department responsible for coordinating the government's work.Letwin dumped more than 100 papers -- including letters, e-mails, memos and briefing notes -- the Mirror said. He tore some of them up but did not shred them.On one occasion in September, Letwin disposed of five intelligence documents involving extraordinary rendition and the 2005 London Transport bombings, the newspaper said. Another time, he was spotted handing a bundle of documents to a trash collector who put them in his waste bag.