‘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. Reporting the NSA spying revelations: Q&A with Guardian editors. Surveillance and the state: this way the debate goes on. "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. Guardian partners with New York Times over Snowden GCHQ files. 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". 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.
UK terror law watchdog promises rapid report on David Miranda detention. 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. David Miranda lawyers’ letter to the Home Office. Turn autoplay off Edition: <span><a href=" Sign in Beta.
David Miranda was not given any reason for detention, say lawyers. 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. 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. David Miranda on his nine-hour terror detention ordeal - video.
Alan Rusbridger: I would rather destroy the copied files than hand them back to the NSA and GCHQ - video. Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow - reaction. 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. 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.