For war crimes trials?
Too preside over the impeachment of Obama?
Too officiate a same-sex ceremony?
"Privacy group sues Britain over surveillance programs; Says UK agency, NSA spy without proper oversight" by Raphael Satter | Associated Press, July 09, 2013
LONDON — A London-based advocacy group filed suit over America’s international data dragnet Monday, a complaint that one analyst said could have significant ramifications for US-British intelligence-sharing....
Privacy International alleges that the National Security Agency and its British counterpart GCHQ are spying on one another’s citizens and swapping the intercepted information without proper oversight.
The complaint also accuses GCHQ of overstepping British law through the mass monitoring of UK communications....
Intelligence agencies and the governments they work for now seem to be above the law.
Related: Globe and the G8
Turns out it's a big fooley. Governments feign being furious, and then it's back to business as usual.
Also see:
Terror Alert Based on Torture
The Strange Death of Gareth Williams
Intelligence Agencies Inspire Hacking
And they tried to tell us it was Snowden.
Privacy’s suit is one of several that have been spawned by NSA surveillance revelations.
In the United States, groups including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Civil Liberties Union also are suing over the agency’s spying.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center on Monday filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court asking it to review the NSA surveillance efforts.
As much as I would love it, they would not halt it. Even if they did, the globe-kickers would turn it into a false flag attack because their spying power was taken away.
It said it took the extraordinary legal step of going directly to the highest court because the sweeping collection of Americans’ phone records has created “exceptional circumstances” that only the justices can address.
The group said it could not challenge the legality of the NSA program at the secret court that approved it, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and because lower federal courts did not have jurisdiction over the secret court’s orders....
Related: Sunday Globe Special: A Shadow Supreme Court
Oh, sorry, wrong court.
Over the past month, the NSA and GCHQ have seen details of their globe-spanning intelligence-gathering efforts splayed across the pages of the Guardian newspaper and other outlets.
And apparently it's about to come to an end because Snowden got a brief yesterday and only a mention in an afterthought paragraph today. As the NSA scandal fades in my ma$$ media it is interesting to note it has sucked out all the oxygen or mention of the other scandals swirling around this White House.
Some in Britain have expressed concerns that GCHQ is drawing on the NSA’s massive data pool to dodge restrictions on domestic espionage.
In its complaint, Privacy said it was concerned that its own communications had been intercepted by the Americans and subsequently handed to British authorities.
Proving the programs are worldwide and with accomplices.
It demanded an immediate end to GCHQ’s exploitation of NSA-obtained intelligence on British residents and an injunction against the blanket interception of UK data over fiber-optic cables.
GCHQ declined to comment on the suit. UK officials have insisted their spies work within the law.
Even if so, it doesn't make it right or consistent with the alleged freedoms of the West.
Legal experts say Privacy’s complaint faces long odds....
They’re divided as to its prospects, should it make its way to the European Court of Human Rights — a Strasbourg, France-based body whose rulings have occasionally frustrated UK leaders.
Former federal contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked the NSA documents, asserted in a video released Monday that the spy agency gathers all communications into and out of the United States for analysis.
That's the only mention he received today, so that scandal is about to disappear from the paper.
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