British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged To Play In NSA's Data Pools

Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "Britain's electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency's massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA's vast troves of private communications and sought 'unsupervised access' to its data as recently as last year – essentially begging to feast at the NSA's table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb."

Comments

Going over my head, perhaps, but.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the hell is the introduction and title written that way? It sounds so........ melodramatic and retarded.

"Secretly Begged"

[bondsbw]

Isn't that pretty much the same as talking to yourself?

Re:Britain is but a client state of Uncle Sam

[Sockatume]

It's not cognate with the French word, it's simply a translation of the meaning. "Great" in English means "large or immense".