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SitiWanMahani - 3 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 kese-lamatan 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 kesela-matan 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 meng-hentikan 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 ber-temu 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 Kega-nasan 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 dihen-tikan 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 mengga-lakkan 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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