MI5 & GCHQ fess up to further ignoring of criminal law
Criminal law is overseen, High Court and other senior judges
appointed, by The Queen
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MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34729139
* From the section<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics>UK Politics
MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone
calls to search for terrorist connections.
The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as
"vague" by the government's terror watchdog.
It emerged as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled a draft bill
governing spying on communications by the authorities.
If it becomes law, the internet activity of everyone in Britain will
be held for a year by service providers.
Police and intelligence officers will then be able to see the names
of sites suspected criminals have visited, without a warrant.
Mrs May told MPs the proposed powers were needed to fight crime and
terrorism but civil liberties campaigners warned it represented to a
"breathtaking" attack on the internet security of everyone living in the UK.
Track terrorists
The draft bill aims to give stronger legal cover to the activities of
MI5, MI6 and the police and introduce judicial oversight of spying operations.
It confirmed that Britain's secret listening post GCHQ has been
intercepting internet messages flowing through Britain in bulk, as
revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden, "to acquire the
communications of terrorists and serious criminals that would not
otherwise be available".
It also revealed that the UK security services have been allowed to
collect large amounts of data on phone calls "to identify subjects of
interest within the UK and overseas", provided they comply with
certain safeguards, set out in
a<https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473780/Handling_arrangements_for_Bulk_Communications_Data.pdf>
supporting document also published on Wednesday.
The draft bill aims to tighten up these safeguards and put the bulk
collection of data on a firmer legal footing. Taken together with the
other measures, the home secretary said the bill would give the
security services a "licence to operate".
In her Commons statement, Mrs May referred to the 1984
Telecommunications Act, under which she said successive governments
had allowed security services to access data from communications companies.
The data involved the bulk records of phone calls - not what was said
but the fact that there was contact - with companies required to hand
over domestic phone records.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the programme, which
sources said was used to track terrorists and save lives, was "so
secret that few even in MI5 knew about it, let alone the public".
'Not outside the law'
The government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David
Anderson QC, told the BBC the legislation used to authorise the
collection was "so vague that anything could be done under it".
He added: "It wasn't illegal in the sense that it was outside the
law, it was just that the law was so broad and the information was so
slight that nobody knew it was happening".
Mr Anderson has called for a "comprehensive" new law governing
surveillance, which the government has produced with the wide-ranging
draft
<https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473770/Draft_Investigatory_Powers_Bill.pdf>Investigatory
Powers Bill.
The draft bill's measures include:
* Allowing the security services to hack into phones and
computers around the world in the interests of national security
* Giving a panel of judges the power to block spying operations
authorised by the home secretary
* A new criminal offence of "knowingly or recklessly obtaining
communications data from a telecommunications operator without lawful
authority", carrying a prison sentence of up to two years
* Local councils to retain some investigatory powers, such as
surveillance of benefit cheats, but they will not be able to access
online data stored by internet firms
* The Wilson doctrine - preventing surveillance of
Parliamentarians' communications - to be written into law
* Police will not be able to access journalistic sources without
the authorisation of a judge
* A legal duty on British companies to help law enforcement
agencies hack devices to acquire information if it is reasonably
practical to do so
* Former Appeal Court judge Sir Stanley Burnton is
<https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sir-stanley-burnton-appointed-interception-of-communications-commissioner>appointed
as the new interception of communications commissioner
Mrs May told MPs the draft bill was a "significant departure" from
previous plans, dubbed the "snoopers' charter" by critics, which were
blocked by the Lib Dems, and will "provide some of the strongest
protections and safeguards anywhere in the democratic world and an
approach that sets new standards for openness, transparency and oversight".
The proposed legislation will be consulted on before a bill is
formally introduced to Parliament in the New Year, Mrs May said. It
will then have to pass votes in both houses of Parliament.
Labour's utter zombie of a shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham,
backed the draft bill, saying it was "neither a snoopers' charter nor
a plan for mass surveillance".
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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