[cryptome] GCHQ Cleared to Spy by Review Panel Judgement:
- From: doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:10:14 +0000
Dear Colleagues,
see url: http://cryptome.org/2014/12/gchq-surv-ipt-judgment.pdf
And have a really fun day...or is is Sun Day, certainly not
enlightenment day... :-)
I take it all back wot I said about American English. I have just spent
half the night reading all 77 pages of the above report, and hardly
understood a word of it. What I can assure you of though, is that your
information is completely safe with the leaders and establishment in our
respective societies. In a closely argued legal review, covering all
aspects of the problem, with the main thrust being on the protection of
the private data of the public and national security and the prevention
of serious crime, the judge has completely won me over, and that all
those concerns and fears that I had regarding uncontrolled collection,
storage and dispersal of information about me and other citizens and non
citizens throughout the world is pure paranoia, put out by a bunch of
freaks, militants and foreign governments, gray and black propoganda.
And that I should trust our government and its agents, implicitly,
explicitly, overtly and covertly, both above and below the waterline.
(The UK is a maritime nation, and it shows in its langauge, none of your
underground stuff here).
Prism, Tempora, Upstream are programs which you needn't worry about, as
the NSA and US government gaurantee the civil rights, the human rights
of their citizens, through carefully worded laws and procedures, and the
sorted, sifted and protected information is only shared on a strictly
controlled basis between the UKASA countries under the agreement. The
oversight and close scrutiny of the operation of those programs is
second to none... and assures the protection of citizens rights here and
in the USA. The size of the haystack of data is carefully limited, and
there is only enough hay collected, or intercepted (is there a
difference), and stored to discover the needle (s), and here in the UK a
variety of government, organisations, independent investigators and
overseers, known for their dispassionate integrity and protection of
human rights are appointed over the administration and running of the
Security Service, the Intelligence Service and GCHQ. Those scrutineers
have discovered nothing which is untoward, apart from one small
hypothetical problem, regarding abuse of storage, which is so minor that
I won't go into it now. Two types of warrant under RIPA and other
legislation, statutes, orders in council, statutory orders, codes of
practice, ensure that the monitoring and surveillance of British
citizens is strictly limited...So...there...!!! Now isn't that just
amazing. John should change the purpose of Cryptome and encourage
hobbies like Ballroom Dancing instead... :-).
ATB
Dougie.
That, dear colleagues...is what one is up against...and it is all true,
true, true... :-).
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