Britain should have "nothing but pride" in its "indispensable" intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States, William Hague has insisted amid continued controversy over secret surveillance programmes. The Foreign Secretary, in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in California, said both nations operated "within a strong legal framework ... under the rule of law" and used the information to protect the freedom of their citizens. Eavesdropping agency GCHQ has been accused of circumventing legal safeguards by accessing information about UK citizens gathered by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a secret programme known as Prism. Evidence of the arrangement was among documents...
↧