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Showing posts with label Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT). Show all posts
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July 24, 2015

Britain - Illegal MI5, MI6 & GCHQ Spying on Parliamentarians


SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/23/intelligence-agency-policies-fail-protect-mps-spying-mi5-mi6-gchq

Intelligence agency policies 'failed to protect MPs' from spying

In the last year MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have followed eight different policies governing the interception of parliamentarians communications, court told

Caroline Lucas: MPs need to communicate in private with constituents and whistleblowers

Caroline Lucas argues there is a strong likelihood her communications have been intercepted. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA

Ian Cobain

Thursday 23 July 2015 23.42 AEST
Last modified on Thursday 23 July 2015 23.45 AEST

The UK’s intelligence agencies have been operating unlawful surveillance policies that have failed to adequately protect the confidential communications of members of parliament, a court has heard.

Officers of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have been operating under eight different policies in the last 12 months alone, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) heard on Thursday.

Most of these policies have failed fully to comply with the law, or with the 50-year-old political convention known as the Wilson doctrine that was thought to prohibit the agencies from eavesdropping on MPs or members of the House of Lords, Ben Jaffey, counsel for the Green party parliamentarians Caroline Lucas and Lady Jones told the IPT.

The Wilson doctrine is named after the former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, who told the Commons in November 1966 that parliamentarians would not be spied upon and that if this policy needed be changed for national security reasons, the PM would announce this in due course.

Lucas, Jones and former Respect MP George Galloway argue there is a strong likelihood that their communications have been intercepted as a consequence of the surveillance programmes exposed by the CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The IPT – a secretive court that hears complaints about the UK’s intelligence agencies – is being asked to confirm that the Wilson doctrine has force in law. The parliamentarians also say that agencies have breached the European convention on human rights.

Some elements of the government’s defence against the legal challenge are being kept secret and the court is likely to sit in camera, with the public and media excluded, if it comes to consider evidence of actual surveillance of MPs and peers.

Jaffey told the IPT that MI5 operated one policy governing the interception of parliamentarians’ communications from April 2012 to September 2014, when it was rewritten after Lucas and Jones lodged their challenge. It was rewritten again last February after government lawyers drafted their “open response” – or non-secret defence – to the claim.

David Miliband, when foreign secretary, authorised an MI6 policy which allowed the agency to intercept parliamentarians’ communications without the prime minister being notified, the IPT was told. This policy was rewritten last February, bringing it closer in wording to the MI5 policy.

GCHQ’s policy was rewritten in March this year and again three months later.

Jaffey said the various policies “fail fully to comply with the law and they fail to comply with public statements as to safeguards”.

It was not the parliamentarians’ case that MPs and members of the Lords should never be intercepted, he said, and there may be exceptional national security grounds for doing so.

However, MPs needed to be able to communicate in private with constituents and whistleblowers. He said: “Strict safeguards to protect parliamentary communications are an important bulwark for the protection of the public interest.”

Although the Wilson doctrine requires the prime minister to make a statement if the policy were to be reversed, all three agencies were operating internal policies that did not require them to inform prime ministers that they were intercepting MPs’ communications, the IPT was told.

These were changed only once Lucas and Jones embarked upon their challenge.

When GCHQ rewrote its policy last month, it did so in a way that removed all protection for communications data and for members of the devolved parliament and assemblies in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Lucas and Jones argue that intercepts which capture the communications of parliamentarians should require the authorisation of a judge.

SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/23/intelligence-agency-policies-fail-protect-mps-spying-mi5-mi6-gchq
  • Caroline Lucas
  • Jenny Jones, Green Party (Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb) 
  • George Galloway, fmr Respect Party 

Is the government spying on politicians? ‘Blanket surveillance’ probed in court hearing 

Prison staff have recorded 3,150 prisoner calls to MPs and downloaded 280 for playback since 2006.

http://www.rt.com/uk/310579-government-spying-politicians-surveillance/


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COMMENT

UK's a creepy surveillance state & the conduct of its spy agencies provides further justification for whistleblower publishers, I would think.