As Techdirt discussed back in March, oversight of the UK‘s intelligence services is essentially one person, working part-time, one of whose techniques for establishing whether everything is being conducted according to the rules and the law is to take the word of the heads of the services that it is. The Right Honorable Sir Mark Waller — for it is him — has now issued his annual report on the UK‘s Intelligence Services (pdf). Despite Snowden‘s revelations of massively-intrusive spying on the entire UK population, and much of the world besides, Waller apparently doesn‘t feel that he needs to change the way he does things: