UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ

An anonymous reader writes with this news from the Guardian: "GCHQ lobbied furiously to keep secret the fact that telecoms firms had gone 'well beyond' what they were legally required to do to help intelligence agencies' mass interception of communications, both in the UK and overseas. GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to privacy in the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods became admissable in court. GCHQ assisted the Home Office in lining up sympathetic people to help with "press handling", including the Liberal Democrat peer and former intelligence services commissioner Lord Carlile, who this week criticised the Guardian for its coverage of mass surveillance by GCHQ and the US National Security Agency."

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Are these the same Lords

[Anonymous Coward]

Are these the same dissolute Lords who ran the Lloyd's of London scam, opening it up to investment in car insurance by Americans, and then swapping the car insurance papers for asbestos insurance? And then, when sued, the plaintiffs were MURDERED? And then the plaintiffs' childrens' law offices burgled of the evidence?

Are these the same Lords who raped Ireland? Are these the same Lords who ran colonialism in the 1700s? Are these the same Lords who made millions of pounds off of whisky production, destroying their own people?

Are these the honorable British Lords who were foisted off on us in the form of such banks as Goldman Sachs?

Are these the same British Lords for whom the phrase has come about, "as drunk as a Lord"?

I thought we got rid of these British Lords, and with good reason. Can we do it again?

There's a reason I resent people calling me sir: I am not such a scoundrel as to have ever recieved a british title.