UK Says Eavesdropping is Legal, Defends U.S. Spy Links!
- Sooner murder and genocide will be perfectly legal ! As long as the Gman say so! All of these statements are simply acclimatizing/brainwashing the sheeple to the Global Surveillance Militarized-Police State. It is about total control. Who wants to be in total control of everything? Who wants to be like the Most High whose sovereign will is in total control of everything?
– - UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links!
by Andrew Osborn
(Reuters) – Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a secret U.S. intelligence program.British and U.S. newspapers have suggested that the U.S. National Security Agency handed over information on Britons gathered under the PRISM program.
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In his first remarks on the subject, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the two countries did share intelligence but that GCHQ’s work was governed by a very strong legal framework.
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“The idea that in GCHQ people are sitting around working out how to circumvent a UK law with another agency in another country is fanciful,” Hague told BBC TV on Sunday. “It is nonsense”.
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Promising he would give a statement on the subject to the lower house of Britain’s parliament on Monday, Hague said there was no threat to privacy or people’s civil liberties. He said was limited in what he could disclose.
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“Of course we share a lot of information with the United States,” he said, adding that the two countries enjoyed “an exceptional intelligence sharing relationship”. “But if information arrives in the UK from the U.S. it’s governed by our laws.”
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Britain’s two-party coalition government is under pressure to reveal more details of how Britain and the United States share intelligence after the reports, based on a leak, suggested such cooperation ran much deeper than was previously known.
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“SNOOPERS’ CHARTER BY THE BACK DOOR”
Critics said the collaboration amounted to a “snoopers’ charter by the back door”, accusing the security services of having much greater access to Britons’ phone and electronic communications than allowed under British law thanks to the clandestine U.S. program.
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