UK intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security cases

[bogeyman]

"The intelligence services have routinely been intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients in sensitive security cases, according to internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents.

The information obtained may even have been exploited unlawfully and used by the agencies in the fighting of court cases in which they themselves are involved, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has been told, resulting in miscarriages of justice."


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/intelligence-agencies-lawyer-client-abdel-hakim-belhaj-mi5-mi6-gchq

This has been an on going process for decades, confidentially is a thing of the past.

[sigma6]

Just in case their guilty conscience at all the suffering they are causing in this world starts to affect their thinking no doubt... can't have that now, can we?... That wasn't an endoscopy you had last week btw... uh uh, that was Big Brother just checking up on you...

Another reason to get as far away from the statutory system of Corporate Policy based on what is called, in Big Brother double speak, Statutory Law, which is an oxymoronic term by definition, meant to brainwash you. Any corporation can change anything they like within the defined parameters of that which they operate (jurisdiction). Including how words are defined. Apparently they can't change the meanings of words fast enough, so they are just going to go in and overrule and manipulate anything they see fit...

Now there's a justice system we can all have faith in... :rolleyes:

[Star Tsar]

Its all in the name Criminal Justice System!

[yelik]

Well I would never have believed that in a million years!! Let me think what the job of a spy agency is, hmm

Spying is now used to create an atmosphere of suspicion and fear amongst it's citizens. They are not protecting us but are positioned to instil fear if you question authority.

[ghostrider]

I smell blackmail in the judicial system ...

[Heartsong]

Most attorneys aren't computer geeks. The mind that studies and learns law works differently than one that analyzes operating systems and programs. The best legal representation available may not have the most simple of virus filters on their computers.

It's not going to take long before industrial spying comes to the level of the small town lawyer scanning, seizing, or even eliminating casework stored in office computers. There is a danger of government versus attorneys, but a more disrupting danger exists in attorneys versus attorneys.