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Don't Tinker with anti-Terror Spy Network, Says Cameron
[An Nahar] British Prime Minister  David Cameron... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... says shared intelligence with the U.S. has benefited EU states as an eavesdropping row pushes La Belle France and Germany to demand a new code of conduct on data-gathering. Cameron said Friday he had passed on to European partners information gleaned from intelligence in cooperation with U.S. and other allies that had helped avert terror plots. He said anger at revelations U.S. spies listened in to calls on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's mobile did not mean governments should legislate to rein in "properly funded intelligence services". Cameron endorsed an EU summit statement backing French and German moves to negotiate a new understanding on the rules of the spy game with Washington by the end of the year. But he said media disclosures stemming from runaway former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden which pinpointed the leaders of Brazil and Mexico among perhaps 35 international such figures targeted was harmful in the fight against terror. The publication of the Snowden files "is frankly signalling to people who mean to do us harm how to evade and avoid" detection, he said, citing a massacre in a Kenyan mall in which at least 67 people died. "It is going to make our world more dangerous," Cameron said. To avoid tilting the balance in the fight against terrorism, Cameron maintained that this "means not having some lah-de-dah, airy-fairy law" drawn up at European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... level in Brussels to constrain spy operations with global importance. "I'm satisfied we have a good framework, a framework that works," Cameron said, making reference notably to a system of cooperation known as 'Five Eyes' -- a long-accepted special relationship between the United States and Britannia with fellow anglo states Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-26 |
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