scandal and monitoring Edward Snowden was so limited? Is that the public does not care?
At a wedding last week, I sat next to a novelist who writes about the Cold War, so I told him the story of how the Secret Intelligence Service thanked all agents in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a moving story of another time and I know it's true.
In Germany approached unification payments authorized by the Government of His Majesty is - I think - DM 30,000 ( 10,200) for all agents who risked their lives and freedom to help MI6. A team of intelligence agents deployed to locate former employees or their families, and to present the check to the gratitude of the government. It was a long and emotional young officers heard many harrowing stories of loss, sacrifice and last year in prison.
Finally, there was one person left on the list. He came to the office of MI6 in the main street Unter den Linden in the former East Berlin, but instead of taking the money, he ran into the street, followed by spies under control. He rejected a second time, gesticulating wildly to the Brandenburg Gate. Does not understand that the British government had anything to make their children could walk to the door as free citizens do? This captures a lot of times that formed my political beliefs, as well as the miracle of liberation in 1989. During the Cold War, the value of freedom and privacy because we compare our lives to the oppressive conditions in the communist bloc. Whatever the shortcomings of Western societies, we knew we were better than these companies and we knew we were right.
history has played on my mind recently, because all summer, I thought the lack of reaction in Britain to the revelations about Snowden U.S. and United Kingdom interception, a lack which has sometimes seemed more remarkable than their own revelations. Now, apparently, we are comfortable with a system of almost total intrusion have horrified all British adults for 25 years. At that time, Western spies have recognized the importance of freedom of meeting survivors of these networks, and now his own people to spy 'have changed, obviously, and to be honest, I wonder if I, and others who are concerned about the privacy and freedom left behind by companies accept surveillance as part of the sophisticated world in which we live in. Even so, the forgetting of history by the British press Snowden seems remarkable.
Last Friday, the order
Today Letter program 8am, usually a reliable indicator of changes in the home and abroad, was as follows.
Putin stands firm on Syria at the G8.
BlairSyrian response. The fate of Syrian refugees. regulator controls nursing requires nurses. Former BBC Trust BBC DG accused of dishonesty. A telephone recording of the Spanish rail recent fall. Parliamentary Commission officials accused of incompetence. China has discovered that many Chinese can not speak Mandarin properly. Water Rats in the UK are falling drastically
Not a mention of the story that takes two of the most influential newspapers in the world - the
- and
- Guardian - which revealed that the U.S. and British governments have compromised the encryption used by Internet companies to protect consumer information, banking information, medical records and all forms of communication. Mandarin items and water rat, but apparently the news that the NSA and GCHQ secretly collaborated with technology and Internet giants for almost total access to our online life.
plays an important role in the establishment of the daily program, but in regard to the program, there was this important story. This gives relief to newspapers also ignore the revelations, almost certainly, at the request of the government.
The BBC may have succumbed to the cold that surrounds the history of Snowden. Three weeks ago, after the partner of one of the first journalists who write about the Snowden
Guardian
was arrested at Heathrow terrorist laws, I four or five interviews with the BBC. In addition, the interviewer simply shows a remarkable lack of knowledge on the subject Snowden, lasted more than two months, but a kind of reserve or scruple to discuss these questions in the air. It is difficult to put your finger on, but that's what I feel like a thrill.
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