‘Black budget’ summary details U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives. The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program details the successes, failures and objectives of the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees. The summary describes cutting-edge technologies, agent recruiting and ongoing operations.
The Post is withholding some information after consultation with U.S. officials who expressed concerns about the risk to intelligence sources and methods. Sensitive details are so pervasive in the documents that The Post is publishing only summary tables and charts online. “The United States has made a considerable investment in the Intelligence Community since the terror attacks of 9/11, a time which includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology, and asymmetric threats in such areas as cyber-warfare,” Director of National Intelligence James R.
Clapper Jr. wrote in response to inquiries from The Post. An espionage empire. Reporting the NSA spying revelations: Q&A with Guardian editors. Surveillance and the state: this way the debate goes on | Editorial. "Spies spy! Who knew? " Thus the world-weary shrug from too many people who ought to know better over the revelations deriving from the material leaked by Edward Snowden about what goes on inside the west's major intelligence agencies in 2013. We have all read our Le Carré, they sigh. We spy on them, they spy on us.
Except in fiction, it must remain a secret world. The secrecy has to remain near-absolute because our national security depends on it. This used to work. Did the governments involved ever stop to think about the notion of consent? Secrecy and openness Thanks to Mr Snowden they have now got a debate − one that is rippling around the world. Secrecy and openness must collide. It is obvious that virtually anyone with a digital life − any user of Google or Verizon or BT or Facebook or Skype − is entitled to know quite how much privacy they can reasonably expect. Who will hold the debate, and how is it to be informed? Responsible reporting Civil liberties and security. Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files | UK news. The Guardian has struck a partnership with the New York Times which will give the US paper access to some of the sensitive cache of documents leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The arrangement was made when the Guardian was faced with demands from the UK government to hand over the GCHQ files it had in its possession. "In a climate of intense pressure from the UK government, the Guardian decided to bring in a US partner to work on the GCHQ documents provided by Edward Snowden. We are working in partnership with the NYT and others to continue reporting these stories," the Guardian said in a statement. Journalists in America are protected by the first amendment which guarantees free speech and in practice prevents the state seeking pre-publication injunctions or "prior restraint". The US surveillance scandal broke in early June when the Guardian revealed the US was collecting telephone records of millions of American citizens.
Exclusive: UK’s secret Mid-East internet surveillance base is revealed in Edward Snowden leaks - UK Politics - UK. The station is able to tap into and extract data from the underwater fibre-optic cables passing through the region. The information is then processed for intelligence and passed to GCHQ in Cheltenham and shared with the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States. The Government claims the station is a key element in the West’s “war on terror” and provides a vital “early warning” system for potential attacks around the world. The Independent is not revealing the precise location of the station but information on its activities was contained in the leaked documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden.
The Guardian newspaper’s reporting on these documents in recent months has sparked a dispute with the Government, with GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives containing the data. The Middle East installation is regarded as particularly valuable by the British and Americans because it can access submarine cables passing through the region. UK terror law watchdog promises rapid report on David Miranda detention | UK news. Britain's anti-terror laws watchdog is to investigate whether laws were used "lawfully, appropriately and humanely" when police detained David Miranda at Heathrow airport for nine hours. David Anderson QC, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, who held talks with the Met police this week, will focus on schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act of 2000, which lets police detain people at ports and airports without grounds for suspicion. The move by Anderson will also raise questions for Theresa May, the home secretary, who was given advance notice of the detention of Miranda and who endorsed the police decision.
In a letter to the home secretary, Anderson said that in addition to his discussions with the police he will need to talk to Home Office officials who advised her on the matter. The letter to May also suggests Anderson wants to see the internal legal advice given May after the Met alerted her officials about the planned detention of Miranda.
David Miranda lawyers’ letter to the Home Office | World news. Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta About us Today's paper Subscribe Custom Search David Miranda lawyers’ letter to the Home Office Legal team demands return of Glenn Greenwald's partner's items that were seized at Heathrow airport• Miranda lawyers threaten action over detention• Alan Rusbriger: David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face theguardian.com, Miranda Protocol Letter Document Pages Zoom Previous for “” Next p. 1 Loading Loading p. 2 p. 3 Page Note 1 of 13 0 To print the document, click the "Original Document" link to open the original PDF.
<a href=" Protocol Letter (PDF)</a><br /><a href=" Protocol Letter (Text)</a> Send to a friend Share. David Miranda was not given any reason for detention, say lawyers | World news. Lawyers for the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald have said police officers who held and questioned him for nine hours at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws did not provide him with any explanation for his detention. They also said that David Miranda, whose native language is Portuguese, was not given an interpreter and that they refused his request for a pen to enable him take notes of the questions he was asked. Miranda said he had been questioned by seven agents about his "entire life" and treated as if he were a criminal.
Now the law firm Bindmans, who were hired by the Guardian to deal with his detention on Sunday, have confirmed that they were not allowed access to Miranda until eight hours after he had been stopped in a transit area at Heathrow. Once the Guardian became aware of his detention, multiple efforts were made to make contact with our client, the letter says. Snowden NSA files: US and UK at odds over security tactics as row escalates | World news. The White House distanced itself from Britain's handling of the leaked NSA documents when representatives said it would be difficult to imagine the US authorities following the example of Whitehall in demanding the destruction of media hard drives.
As a former lord chancellor said the Metropolitan police had no legal right to detain the partner of a Guardian journalist at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws, the White House suggested it would be inappropriate for US authorities to enter a media organisation's offices to oversee the destruction of hard drives. The White House – which on Monday distanced Washington from the detention of David Miranda – intervened for the second time in 24 hours after the Guardian revealed that senior Whitehall figures had demanded the destruction or surrender of hard drives containing some of the secret files leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The White House responded with surprise to the report of the destruction.
May told the BBC: "No. Greenwald's partner David Miranda on his detention under terror laws - video | World news. David Miranda on his nine-hour terror detention ordeal - video | World news. Alan Rusbridger: I would rather destroy the copied files than hand them back to the NSA and GCHQ - video | World news. Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow - reaction | Politics.
The government is already planning to change the way schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act (see 12.48pm) operates. But on the World at One David Anderson QC, the government's independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, suggested that reform should go even further. Here are the main points. • Anderson suggested further "safeguards" needed to be introduced to prevent the Terrorism Act being abused.
He identified two possible reforms which he said he hoped MPs would consider when they debated the legislation in the autumn. First, the Act could be changed to stop police detaining people under schedule 7 (as they can now) when they do not suspect someone of being a terrorist. It seems to me there is a question to be answered about whether it should possible to detain somebody, to keep them for six hours, to download their mobile phone, without the need for any suspicion at all.
Second, new rules could be introduced controlling how the police can seize data under the Act. This is a useful power. NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by statute and executive order.
They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls. The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees surveillance. In one instance, the NSA decided that it need not report the unintended surveillance of Americans. Read the documents FISA court finds illegal surveillance What's a 'violation'?
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