Cameron defends British intelligence relationship spy program dollars
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, the British intelligence services worked in the framework of the law, after reports received information gathered by the United States secretly from major companies operating on the Internet.
The deputies asked British government answers after it published a Guardian newspaper report hinted out that the United States may be handed over to British intelligence data related to mobile and internet belong to British citizens, which could allow these devices circumvent the existing law and take advantage of the spy is not legitimate in the country.
And raised a secret U.S. program to spy on the Internet critical of Washington's allies forced them to clarify whether they allow Washington to spying on their fellow citizens or are they benefiting from data collected by a secret.
The U.S. officials the existence of the secret program, which is known as (Prism), which showed documents leaked to the newspapers and the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian that allowed them to penetrate the e-mail accounts and conversations online chat and some means of communication other affiliate companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype.
Cameron told reporters after he delivered a speech today, "I feel good because we have intelligence agencies doing a great job for this country to make us safe and it works in the framework of the law."
He stated that it is necessary to operate and intelligence agencies within the appropriate legal framework and expressed his delight that this is the case in Britain.
"I am satisfied with the questions that I ask and that I will always I ask in order to operate (hardware) in a correct and appropriate way. They also work within the framework makes it subject to proper scrutiny by the Committee of Intelligence and Security (in the parliament)."
Said William Hague, Foreign Minister, who is also scheduled to speak on this issue before the parliament today that British intelligence did not violate any law, but he refused to confirm or deny receiving the data collected secretly.
He asked MPs in the British parliament whether British intelligence agencies have circumvented the law requires to obtain high-level approval to obtain data related to e-mail and the Internet belong to people in the United Kingdom by simply obtaining them from the United States.
U.S. law imposes restrictions on the government's authority to spy inside the country, but there are no restrictions on the actual U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdropping on foreign communications, including in allied countries, which share with Washington intelligence.
This means that Washington can provide friendly governments with a huge amount of information about the private communications of their citizens on the Internet.
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