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The director-general of MI5, the domestic security service, Andrew Parker has warned in his speech on Tuesday that the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations pose considerable amount of threat to ability of British security system to protect U.K. against the terrorism.
Mr. Parker has told newspaper had published enough leaks elaborating how the intelligence agencies intercept voice and internet communications are a “gift” to terrorists, causing “enormous damage” to the fight against jihadists.
His warning came after the revelations from Mr. Snowden about covert U.S. programmes which amass data about U.K. citizens by monitoring emails, phone calls and social media and the material is then passed on to GCHQ.
Mr. Parker defined how the “margin of advantage” over the terrorist is exposed to major attack, and information about GCHQ’s methods is “the gift they need to evade us and strike at will”.
He also attacked critics of the abandoned communications data bill which was dubbed a “snooper’s charter”. It would have allowed MI5 and other surveillance agencies to track end to end internet traffic but was dropped due to massive opposition from Liberal Democrats.
The MI5 chief addressed an audience at the Royal United Services Institute: “We cannot work without the tools.
“Shifts in technology can erode our capabilities. It is not an option to disregard such shifts with an unspoken assumption that somehow security will anyway be sustained. It will not.”
The Guardian has replied to Mr. Parker’s comments with issuing a statement of defense favoring its decision to publish the Snowden revelations: “A huge number of people – from President Obama to the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper – have now conceded that the Snowden revelations have prompted a debate which was both necessary and overdue.”
“The President has even set up a review panel and there have been vigorous discussions in the US Congress and throughout Europe. Such a debate is only worthwhile if it is informed. That is what journalism should do.’’
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