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"Mr President, glad as I am that Parliament is taking this lead in scrutinising spying operations, we cannot do it alone. We need national parliamentarians to probe the activities of their intelligence services, and not be fobbed off by whispers of ‘national security, old chaps, you know’.
As on the question of rendition and torture starting a decade ago, I have a strong sense of déjà vu of challenging a secretive intelligent state. I am proud of the role that I and my ALDE Group played in finally getting the temporary committee of MEPs in 2006, which helped expose the truth, even though the then Labour Government in Britain tried to scare us off – especially me.
I hope the Intelligence and Security Committee of UK MPs will do a better job on GCHQ’s Project Tempora than they did in investigating UK complicity in extraordinary rendition. So far the signs are not good and I am afraid we have even cancelled an open hearing of intelligence chiefs this week. Indeed there is a scandalously deafening silence at Westminster and I and many others would like to know why.
Yes, we must get a rigorous new EU data protection regulation, but without stronger national and international controls on snooping by the spooks and agreements on jurisdiction – and there Vice-President Reding was absolutely right that this is a conflict of laws problem – we are only baking half a loaf with EU data protection law."@en1
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