Sentences with phrase «british foreign intelligence»

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The argument is that the warrant, submitted to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, relied on dubious information from the Trump - Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — and that the judge was not informed about the actual source of the information.

The foreign secretary offered a very qualified reassurance to UK citizens following newspaper reports that GCHQ, the British government's Cheltenham - based eavesdropping and security agency, had been receiving intelligence from a US programme called Prism.

Tony Blair was in attendance, alongside his foreign and defence secretaries, the attorney - general, and the leading lights of British intelligence.

And apart from anything else, if you're running a newspaper with foreign correspondents in strange parts of the world, as I was then, it's potentially a physical threat to them if it's believed that they're working for British intelligence.

About SIS According to SIS's informative website, a formal and permanent British intelligence service was first established in 1909; but the history of British intelligence organizations engaged in foreign intelligence goes back at least to the 15th century (Thomas Cromwell ran secret agents in Europe on behalf of Henry VIII and Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's «spymaster», maintained a network of 50 secret agents abroad and a substantial network in Britain.

If you look at the BBC's news website, the headline item is the Khadr interrogation video released as a result of Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Appellants v. Omar Ahmed Khadr Respondent — and — British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Criminal Lawyers» Association (Ontario), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law — International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch Interveners, in which the court held that