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British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers and Journalists

Advocatus Diaboli writes British spies have been granted the authority to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged attorney-client communications, according to newly released documents. On Thursday, a series of previously classified policies confirmed for the first time that the U.K.'s top surveillance agency Government Communications Headquarters has advised its employees: "You may in principle target the communications of lawyers." The country's other major security and intelligence agencies—MI5 and MI6—have adopted similar policies, the documents show. The guidelines also appear to permit surveillance of journalists and others deemed to work in "sensitive professions."

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  1. Re:Art Of War - Chapter 13 - The use of spies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!

    Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.

    Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat.

    And then he beat the crap out of every single one.

    And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a 'zoo'!