Courts and bug product

[Ian Batten]

On 14 Feb 2008, at 12:16, Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>>>
>> The obvious objection to that is ``the prosecution have exotic GCHQ  
>> technology to establish what is being said from these murky  
>> recordings you've given us, we don't''.
>
> Hand over a second set as cleaned up - "equality of arms" under ECHR  
> Art 6 fair trial.

<devil's advocate>
And shazam, the defence have a massive demonstration of the  
capabilities or otherwise of the spooks. Even a transcript has that  
problem: you can listen to the tape, then see what could be  
transcribed with spook technology and what couldn't, then check with  
your clients what they were doing during the bits that couldn't be  
transcribed.  Tapes, ceiling fans, Radio 1: what works best?
</devil's advocate>

I assume this is the sort of argument that explains why the spooks  
don't want evidence admitted.