"Warrants authorising phone taps treble"

[Roland Perry]

In article <47A2E21E.6482.5AE5B2F@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>On 31 Jan 2008 at 21:03, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>
>> Because any of it (even the real-er RDQ's) is intrusive, and I'd like it
>> to be publicly known _exactly_ how intrusive the Cops are.
>
>That was never going to happen because, as a previous Hutton revealed
>in a report, the Security Service welcome RIP having played a large
>part in writing it.

It seems unlikely they played much part in the comms data sections. 
There's nothing there that wasn't already well understood within the 
previous 29(3) regime.

>I did ask how big a part Liberty played in writing it and the silence 
>was deafening.

Liberty's eye was off the ball, in this instance, iirc. FIPR, on the 
other hand, did make a lot of noise, and initiated the process of 
amending one clause whose effect was to reduce opportunities for 
intrusion.

-- 
Roland Perry