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... on interception of internal communications together with the clarifications brought by the publication of the Code indicate with sufficient clarity the procedures for the authorization and processing of interception warrants as well as the processing, communicating and destruction of intercept material collected. The Court further observes that there is no evidence of any significant shortcomings in the application and operation of the surveillance regime. On the contrary, the various reports of the Commissioner have highlighted the diligence with which the authorities implement RIPA and correct any technical or human errors which accidentally occur. Having regard to the safeguards against abuse in the procedures as well as the more general safeguards offered by the supervision of the Commissioner and the review of the IPT ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 50 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-030.pdf
... Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They're Taking Over Our World Colin Hughes (ed) What went wrong, Gordon Brown? How the dream job turned sour Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour David John Douglass, Ghost Dancers Heather Brooke, The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Christopher Harvie, Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown John Strafford, Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom Edward Vallance, A Radical History of Britain Alex Butterworth, The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Barry ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-001.pdf
... the anti-subversion lobby, and they used his surprise resignation as the basis of some disinformation about his (non-existent) links with the KGB. Meanwhile the Daily Mail revealed the bit which the Cabinet Office, not MI5 (says the Mail) had insisted Christopher Andrew omit from his history of MI5: 'MI5 used hidden electronic surveillance equipment to secretly monitor 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet and at least five Prime Ministers....for nearly 15 years, all Cabinet meetings, the offices of senior officials and all visitors to the Prime Minister – including foreign leaders 14 'Obama and the Steady Drift to the Right', Z Magazine, March 2010 15 < ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8 .99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, £8 .99 (UK) Tom Easton It's too early to say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-187.pdf
... under New Labour. He's travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance and the national security state to the 'war on terror' and control orders and rendition, Ewing's solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but also to a broader band of concerned citizenry. Richard Seymour, who blogs at Lenin's Tomb (http://leninology.blogspot.com/), has produced a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-140.pdf
... the UK. The large transmitter found attached to the bottom of the table in the CPGB's central meetings room, displayed by ex CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews in the Independent (25 November 1989), illustrates Peter Wright's claim that 'By 1955....... the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants'; and with the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former party members, like the late Harry Newton, to inform on the British comrades. I do not want to argue that MI5 were running the CPGB. But it did allow the CPGB to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf
... , W. J. Baltruweit, wrote, 'CSIS management willingly and deliberately coerced by intimidation (hence "terrorize"), and gained submission by inducing fear (hence "terrorism"). '3 Mr. Baltruweit is not the only former Canadian spook to refer to CSIS's well-known illegal use of 'counter intelligence tactics used for surveillance, intimidation and harassment'. In an article in Lobster 61, 'CSIS and the Canadian Stasi',4 Gareth Llewellyn, another former senior Canadian intelligence officer, describes his own persecution by CSIS. Indeed Wikileaks unearthed a US diplomatic cable which stated that the former CSIS Chief, Mr. Judd, admitted to a US State Department ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 10 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-canadian-spy-agency.pdf
... Literary Spying British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 James Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013, £55.00, h/b John Newsinger Smith's book is an immensely valuable preliminary examination of the British secret state's surveillance of 'the left-wing writers and artists' of George Orwell's generation. As the author makes clear, the context was very different from the United States. In Britain surveillance of the arts and artists was not informed by any US-style Red Scare. In Britain, he argues, 'MI5's activity was much more circumspect and rarely resulted in direct forms of censorship', let alone any 'explosive arrests'. MI5, unlike the FBI, did ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 191 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-literary-spying.pdf
... and, one might add, more cautious - 'about actual and potential enemies. ' They could also learn from one another, so long as they thought they had something to learn. The arrogant British often didn't. Nor, more recently, have the Americans. Since the 1970s the US has built a huge lead in the field of surveillance technology (so that it no longer needed British ex-imperial listening stations, for example), and has become impatient of advice from anywhere. Ideology has also played a part: if you're a Neo-Con, there is no reason to double-check whether 'liberated' countries really do turn naturally to 'democracy'. It ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 20 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-spies-we-trust.pdf
... http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/sex-in-the- senate-bobby-baker-99530_Page3.html> On Rometsch see <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ JFKrometsch.htm>. the NSA/GCHQ's global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would 'duplicate' the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state's perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 22 - 02 Jan 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-view-bridge.pdf
