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| Klingon chief criticises laws and net privacy in wake of Paris attacks |
| 2015-11-17 |
| [The Guardian] John Brennan calls for review of reforms such as USA Freedom Act, saying they may have created 'inadvertent or intentional gaps' in security services. "Intelligence gaps" have always been among us. That's why we have fusion cells and an 'All Source' intelligence approach. The director of the CIA has criticised "hand-wringing" over the role of spy agencies in hunting terrorists and called for legal constraints on surveillance to be reviewed in the wake of last week's Paris attacks. John Brennan's comments on Monday represent the most significant pushback yet against recent reforms of a surveillance programme that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records and was exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. They came as pressure grew on internet companies in Silicon Valley to share users' data and prompted civil liberties campaigners to warn against an overreaction. Excuse me, but doesn't someone else do that icky Special Intelligence stuff? Isn't your job mostly Human Intelligence (HUMINT)? Enuf of your lame regime excuses and sock puppetry. Please stay in your lane and concentrate on the job at hand. "I do think this is a time for particularly Europe, as well as here in the United States, for us to take a look and see whether or not there have been some inadvertent or intentional gaps that have been created in the ability of intelligence and security services to protect the people that they are asked to serve," America's top spy told a summit at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington. One of your snoopy TAC contractors at the DoS passport office having a peek at presidential candidate Champ's passport, now that's an entirely different matter eh ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |