MI6 avoids greater oversight
Government rejects reforms after agent crossed ‘red lines’
Ministers have rejected a call for greater oversight of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 after a foreign agent crossed “red lines”, Sir Brian Leveson has told me in his first interview as investigatory powers commissioner.
In October 2019, Leveson wrote to the prime minister, noting that the running of agents by MI6 overseas was …
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