MI5 and Home Office acted unlawfully

But tribunal rules that a public finding of ‘serious failings’ is punishment enough

Yesterday’s ruling from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal is deeply disturbing. The judicial body that deals with complaints about the intelligence agencies found “very serious failings” by the Security Service MI5, as a result of which surveillance and interception warrants were issued unlawfully by successive home secretaries over a three-year period.

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