FIFTEEN YEARS

No, I am not referring to the fifteen years (minimum) of bird that PM David Cameron deserves for continuing the plan revealed to General Wesley Clark shortly after 9/11.

I am referring to the 15 years during which GCHQ has been collecting public phone records.

But we've known about this since 1998. The program was called Echelon.

All that Snowden has done, courtesy of the establishment newspapers The Guardian and the Washington Post, is told us via the front pages of those newspapers is that this is occuring.

Nothing about 9/11 (in fact Snowden still believes the official 9/11 bullshit and actually signed up to kill Iraqis because of 9/11!)

Nothing about the plan revealed to General Wesley Clark.

Nothing.

But his claims have been used to call for broader spying powers.


Anyone feel like they've been taken for a fool?

MI5 and GCHQ have been secretly scooping up the telephone and email records of the British public for almost 15 years, the Home Secretary has revealed for the first time.

The revelation came as Theresa May unveiled a raft of new snooping measures in the Investigatory Power Bill, which includes forcing communication companies in law to help spy agencies snoop on suspects.

Other proposals will see the collection of the public’s web browsing history for up to a year and judges signing off warrants for intrusive surveillance.

The biggest overhaul of spying laws still face tough opposition but could now make it through parliament and in to law after Labour appeared to back the measures.

In a surprise development, Mrs May confirmed to MPs that she and her predecessors have quietly approved warrants for bulk collection of communication data in the UK since 2001.

The public avowal of the spy agencies’ tactic was described by the terrorism laws watchdog as a “significant and necessary” move.

It is the first formal confirmation that there has been mass collection of phone and email records in the UK, including those of innocent people.

[source : MI5 and GCHQ secretly bulk collecting British public's phone and email records for years, Theresa May reveals, Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11976008/MI5-and-GCHQ-secretly-bulk-collecting-British-publics-phone-and-email-records-for-years-Theresa-May-reveals.html, 4th November 2015]