Posted on 06/07/2013 6:57:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
The Government's Intelligence and Security Committee is going on a week-long tour, when it will meet senior figures from the America’s intelligence agencies.
The news came after leaked US documents appeared to show that Britain’s listening post GCHQ has been secretly gathering intelligence from some of the world’s biggest internet firms through America’s National Security Agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
> The UK is the USAs best friend.
bama is trying to drive a wedge between us.
And the rest of the world, especially Israel.
Yup, you really really don’t wanna pi$$ off the Israelis ....
Remember the “Nazi Hunters”?
Nuff said.
I agree with both your posts - you get it!
Do you remember this story -
CIA probes British spy murder as it emerges he was sent on frequent missions to Pentagon’s high-security listening post
By Charlotte Gill, Emily Andrews and Liz Hull
UPDATED:03:01 EST, 27 August 2010
...”The Daily Mail can reveal that the 31-year-old codebreaker flew to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon’s listening post and the largest intelligence agency in the world, up to four times a year. He returned from his last trip to America only a few weeks before he was found dead.
Questions also remain over why his body lay undiscovered for up to a fortnight at his£400,000 flat in a Victorian townhouse in Pimlico, central London, half a mile from MI6 headquarters.
Mr Williams worked at the Government’s listening post, GCHQ in Cheltenham, but had been on secondment to MI6 for the past year and was due to return to GCHQ next Friday...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306549/CIA-probes-British-spy-murder-frequent-missions-Pentagons-high-security-listening-post.html
hussein doesn’t care who he leaks on (pun or not). A couple days ago it was Israel and today it’s England. Any bets on who it’ll be tomorrow?
Great programme, thought I was the only person here who remembers it. I have the DVD’s and the original tie-in novels.
I discovered it back in the 80s on Sunday late night public TV. I’ve got the DVDs and maybe one of the novels. They also ran some others like Bulman, Target, Star Cops, and Bergerac.
To me, Sandbaggers is a very well done series given the probably very low budget it had.
Ray Lonnen (Willie) is on Twitter fwiw.
We can’t spy on our citizens so the Britss do it and give us info , and of course visa version. That’s how Echelon worked I believe.
So technically Obama is telling the truth, he isn’t listening to our phone calls, but the Brits are.
Never really watched Bulman, never watched any Star Cops, watched Bergerac every week (in fact there is talk of a new version with a younger lead actor), Target was in fact taken off air by the BBC in 1978 as it was too violent.
Bulman was OK, Star Cops had a good theme and some ideas. Bergerac was routine Sunday night viewing as long as NC Public TV ran it, 2 or 3 years I think. Target had a great theme and I liked the action from what I remembered.
Another one they ran was Shoestring. I loved it too.
Shoestring was very good. Trevor Eve became a sex symbol here. lol.
...after leaked US documents appeared to show that Britain’s listening post GCHQ has been secretly gathering intelligence from some of the world’s biggest internet firms through America’s National Security Agency.
Liz Crowther wasn’t too bad on the eyes at least in my opinion.
I read once that Shoestring may not see DVD due to the pain of music rights. It is one I would love to have. Throw in Target as well.
I recall a story a few years back that said the UK gov’t monitors US phone calls and the US gov’t monitors UK calls. Then they exchange the info. If I recall, the point was that this supposedly got around the protections in place for the citizens of both states. Does anyone remember this? It could have been some crazy thing like WND but I seem to recall that they showed a weird looking gov’t building in the UK that supposedly was where they were listening in.
FReegards
Why only Verizon? Why not AT&T also? Could it be that the gov’t uses AT&T and doesn’t want snoops looking/collecting info?
Target was the BBC’s attempt to do their own version of the classic, iconic ITV cop action show ‘The Sweeney’ (which was recently remade as a film). The Sweeney was brilliant: real hard as nails police, based as it was on the famous london ‘Flying Squad’.
I would be happy to recommend any great British TV programme or film, from the 1940’s to today. British film and TV is a passion of mine.
I have season one of the Sweeney here plus the soundtrack. The most I know of the movie remake is when Jeremy and Richard lend their “expertise” to the angry man who was directing.
Its a good film, not great, but good.
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