Re: Government Noses

["David Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On 8 Sep 2003 at 8:50, Brian Beesley wrote:

> Go on then. Assure us that eavesdropping is done legally only under warrant; 

Warrants issued by the courts please.

> that the warrants issued are targetted very specifically,

We know that they are read out to Mr Blunkett who then says yes to 
almost all of them, if not all of them. This is supposed to be 
supervision.

> are issued for short periods only

Of course we know that they are not. In order to make things easier for 
those hiding behind the Home Office the time period was increased from 
one to three months (from memory). That is also a clever way to magic 
the figures down, which of course nobody in the Home Office thought of:-
)


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