Revealed: UK.gov's 'third direction' to keep tabs on spies' potentially criminal activities The government has finally made public a secretive direction that requires snoop oversight bodies to monitor spies’ potential participation in criminality. The oversight instruction was put on a statutory basis as a Prime Ministerial direction in 2014. However its existence was only revealed in 2016 as a result of legal …
This is because if you tell people stuff, they will start knowing stuff.
And they might not like you as a result.
But then, maybe it's because you do things they don't like?
Given how much stuff the UKG does that quite a lot of people would not like it's not really surprising they don't like being honest about this.
That does not mean they shouldn't be honest about it.
Like it, or like it not, one will have to accept AI Command and Control which expects what happens in spy circles to stay in spy circles .... and would rejects any and all alternative lesser proposals. Such then has spies in charge of future destinations and virtual destinies for Lead Oday Trading to Stock and Bonds/Debt and Equity Markets.
Good luck with that sinecure of an oversight, Commissioner Adrian Fulford. Money for nothing and the chicks are free if you know what you should be doing.
The Direction is now available* on IPCO's javascript-riddled website. (*cunningly encrypted as a poor-quality scan of a faded photocopy of a low-res fax)
Transcription:
Investigatory Powers Act 2016
Investigatory Powers Commissioner (Additional Directed Oversight Functions) (Security Service agent participation in criminality) Direction 2017
The Prime Minister, in exercise of the power conferred by section 230 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (“the Act)[sic], directs the Investigatory Powers Commissioner as follows:
Citation and Commencement
1. This direction may be cited as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner (Additional Directed Oversight Functions) (Security Service agent participation in criminality) Direction 2017.
2. This Direction comes into force on 1ˢᵗ September 2017.
Additional Review Functions
3. The Investigatory Powers Commissioner shall keep under review the application of the Security Service guidelines on the use of agents who participate in criminality and the authorisations issued in accordance with them.
Signed: Theresa May
Date: 22/8/17
"*cunningly encrypted as a poor-quality scan of a faded photocopy of a low-res fax."
Something about locked filing cabinets, disused lavatories and leopards?
Mines the one that looks like a dressing gown.
excuse my obligatory reference but if they will keep illustrating the problem I feel duty bound at least to try to kick off a discussion about the obvious solution...
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