10.01.2015 - 08:29 [ Techdirt ]

UK Intelligence Boss: We Had All This Info And Totally Failed To Prevent Charlie Hebdo Attack… So Give Us More Info

We already wrote about surveillance state opportunists like Michael Hayden using the Charlie Hebdo attacks as evidence for why the surveillance state should be allowed to spy on everyone, and now the head of the UK‘s MI5 intelligence agency has similarly used the attack as an excuse to demand more surveillance powers: