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| Quote: Huppert said after the hearing: "It is no surprise that Charles Farr is committed to the communications data bill but it will not happen this parliament because we in the Liberal Democrats have said 'no'." | |
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So we should not vote for anyone else then? Neither of the big parties can be trusted.
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| Quote: Earlier in the hearing, the government's official counter-terrorism watchdog, David Anderson QC, told the MPs he believed the debate in Britain over the NSA/GCHQ disclosures had been muted compared with many other countries because the public were proud of their security services thanks to Bletchley Park and 007. | |
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Both of those are very old examples. Bletchley Park was during the war, and Bond is an idealistic version of spying again primarily during the cold war. All the novels were written prior to 1964.
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| Quote: But he warned the MPs about adopting a "zero risk mentality" in the wake of the latest disappearance of a suspect under the terrorist prevention and investigation measures, known as TPIMs, saying the only foolproof method to keep everybody safe was to lock up all suspects for ever. Britain was not that kind of country, he said. | |
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Yet.