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ketua risikan utama United Kingdom dijadualkan untuk memberi keterangan di
hadapan pemimpin-pemimpin Parlimen Khamis dalam apa yang akan menjadi kali
pertama mereka bercakap secara terbuka mengenai ayat-ayat yang dinyatakan oleh
Edward Snowden awal tahun ini.
Pengarah
Ibu Pejabat Kerajaan Britain Komunikasi (GCHQ), ketua perkhidmatan keselamatan
dalam negeri MI5, dan ketua perkhidmatan perisikan asing MI6 masing-masing akan
memecahkan kesunyian mereka di televisyen nasional.
Ia akan
datang pada hari yang sama bahawa peguam untuk David Miranda, rakan lama
wartawan Glenn Greenwald, akan berhujah di hadapan Mahkamah Tinggi British
bahawa penahanan 9 jam di Lapangan Terbang Heathrow di London pada musim panas
ini melanggar hak Miranda.
Soal Parlimen
ketua-ketua perisikan dijangka sesi bukti perhimpunan akibat bantahan awam
terhadap GCHQ dan Agensi Keselamatan Negara Amerika Syarikat. Perdana Menteri
UK David Cameron dan sekutu-sekutunya dalam parti Konservatif, ketika malu
dengan kebocoran, telah mempertahankan program perisikan sebagai aspek yang
perlu keselamatan negara.
“(Ketua-ketua
risikan) secara tradisinya beroperasi di belakang tabir,” kata jurucakap
kerajaan kepada Reuters.” Tetapi mereka lebih umum daripada mereka telah bertahun-tahun.
Ini adalah satu langkah ke hadapan dari segi ketelusan.”
The
United Kingdom’s three primary intelligence chiefs are scheduled to testify in
front of parliamentary leaders Thursday in what will be the first time they
speak publicly on the revelations disclosed by Edward Snowden earlier this
year.
The
director of Britain’s Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), head of the
domestic security service MI5, and the head of the foreign intelligence service
MI6 will each break their silence on national television.
It will
come on the same day that lawyers for David Miranda, longtime partner of
journalist Glenn Greenwald, will argue in front of the British High Court that
his nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport this summer violated
Miranda’s rights.
Parliament’s
questioning of the intelligence heads is expected to be an evidence-gathering
session as a result of the public outcry against the GCHQ and US National
Security Agency. UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his allies in the
Conservative party, while being embarrassed by the leaks, have defended the
intelligence programs as a necessary aspect of national security.
“(The
intelligence chiefs) have traditionally operated behind a veil,” a government
spokesman told Reuters. “But they are more publicly available than they have
been in many years. This is a step forward in terms of transparency.”
Perdana
Menteri Britain, David Cameron (British
Prime Minister David Cameron (AFP Photo/Leon Neal - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
UK intelligence leaders to testify for the first
time
since Snowden leaks . . .
Sumber
berkata soalan akan memberi tumpuan kepada jika pendedahan melanggar privasi
individu, bukan pada bagaimana mereka mempengaruhi keupayaan UK untuk mengumpul
risikan atau dalam hal-hal operasi.
GCHQ
adalah yang paling berpengaruh daripada 3 agensi, dengan lebih daripada 6,000
kakitangan yang membawa siber peperangan di Britain.
Cameron,
menyangkal idea bahawa GCHQ dan lain-lain telah pergi terlalu jauh dalam usaha
pengawasan mereka, telah mengancam untuk menggunakan kuasa untuk menghentikan
akhbar daripada menyiarkan maklumat lanjut. Pemimpin British juga telah
mendakwa bahawa parlimen memanggang telah dirancang lama sebelum kebocoran
Snowden dan soalan-soalan tentang privasi vs keselamatan adalah tidak sebagai
tindak balas kepada ia.
Walaupun
Parlimen membincangkan keluar jatuh peguam David Miranda akan cuba untuk
meyakinkan mahkamah tinggi bahawa pihak berkuasa melanggar undang-undang dengan
pegangan Miranda apabila beliau melalui Heathrow pada 18 Ogos. Miranda,
kebangsaan Brazil, adalah dalam transit antara Berlin dan Rio de Janeiro
selepas dia bertemu dengan Laura Poitras, seorang wartawan yang telah bekerja
dengan Greenwald memecahkan berita itu berdasarkan kepada dokumen yang disediakan
oleh Snowden .
Dia
berhenti di lapangan terbang Heathrow di bawah jadual kontroversi 7 hingga
Keganasan 2000. Peguam Miranda telah berusaha untuk menentukan mengapa dia
berhenti di tempat pertama serta butir-butir mengapa laptop, telefon, dan lain-lain
data- syarikat penerbangan telah dirampas.
Peguam
bagi pihak polis dan Pejabat Negeri telah menegaskan bahawa Miranda dihentikan
kerana kebimbangan terhadap keselamatan negara dan, khususnya, bahawa dia telah
terlibat dalam keganasan kerana bahan dalam miliknya.
Draf
muktamad dalaman lembaran edaran pelabuhan polis (PCS), yang menggariskan
sebab-sebab kejutan singgah Miranda berkata, Miranda mempunyai potensi untuk “bertindak
bertentangan dengan kepentingan UK keselamatan negara,” seperti yang dipetik
oleh ‘The Guardian’.
“Kami
menilai bahawa Miranda sengaja membawa bahan, pembebasan yang akan membahayakan
kehidupan rakyat,” PCS diteruskan. “Selain itu pendedahan, atau ancaman
pendedahan, direka untuk mempengaruhi kerajaan, dan dibuat bagi maksud
menggalakkan sebab politik atau ideologi. Sehubungan itu, termasuk dalam
definisi keganasan dan oleh itu kita meminta supaya perkara ini diperiksa di
bawah jadual 7.”
Pendengaran
dijangka lebih banyak pada akhir minggu ini.
Sources
said the questions would focus on if the disclosures violated individual
privacy, not on how they affected the UK’s ability to gather intelligence or on
operational matters.
The GCHQ
is the most influential of the three agencies, with more than 6,000 staff
members that lead Britain’s cyber-wars.
Cameron,
refuting the idea that the GCHQ and others have gone too far in their
surveillance efforts, has threatened to use his power to stop the press from
publishing more details. British leaders have also claimed that the
parliamentary grilling was planned long before Snowden’s leaks and the
questions about privacy vs. security are not in response to it.
While
parliament is discussing the fall out, David Miranda’s attorneys will try to
convince the high court that authorities broke the law by holding Miranda when
he was passing through Heathrow on August 18. Miranda, a Brazilian national,
was in transit between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro after he met with Laura
Poitras, a journalist who has been working with Greenwald to break the news based
on the documents provided by Snowden.
He was
stopped at Heathrow airport under the controversial schedule 7 to the Terrorism
Act 2000. Miranda’s attorneys have sought to determine why he was stopped in
the first place as well as details of why his laptop, phone, and other
data-carriers were confiscated.
Lawyers
for the police and for the Home Office have maintained that Miranda was stopped
because of concerns over national security and, more specifically, that he was
involved in terrorism because of the material in his possession.
The
final draft of the police’s internal port circulation sheet (PCS), which
outlined the reasons for Miranda’s surprise layover, said Miranda had the
potential to “act against the interests of UK national security,” as quoted by
The Guardian.
“We
assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would
endanger people’s lives,” the PCS continued. “Additionally the disclosure, or
threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government, and is made for
the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls
within the definition of terrorism and as such we request that the subject is
examined under schedule 7.”
The
hearing is expected to be over by the end of the week.
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