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Now that’s rather better from Nick Clegg

Unlike yesterday, this is rather good:

British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to start conversations in government about how to update the legal oversight of the UK’s security services in the light of disclosures by the Guardian that powerful new technologies appear to have outstripped the current system of legislative and political oversight.

Clegg’s aides said he would be calling in experts from inside and outside Whitehall to discuss the implications of the new surveillance technologies for public accountability and trust. It is the first time such a senior figure in government has conceded that the revelations published in the Guardian have highlighted concerns about the accountability of the security services.

As is this too from Vince Cable:

Dr Cable this morning questioned the actions of Mr Snowden, but backed the Guardian’s decision to publish the leaks, praising the paper for supplying a “very considerable public service”.

“What they did, as journalists, was entirely correct and right. Mr Snowden’s a different kettle of fish,” he told the Today programme. [Politics Home]

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