Kevin Drum - June 2013  Saturday Supermoon Blogging - 22 June
2013  | Sat Jun. 22, 2013 7:58 PM GMT  A quick break from work.
Here is tonight's supermoon rising over the dome of the Greek
Orthodox church across the street from me. Enjoy.  Advertise on
Britain's NSA Is Listening to Your Phone Calls  | Sat Jun. 22,
2013 4:58 PM GMT  Yesterday, the Guardian revealed that GCHQ,
Britain's version of the NSA, has been running a program called
Tempora that taps fiber optic cables coming into the country.
GCHQ claims that Tempora gathers more metadata than any NSA
program, and provides access to 600 million "telephone events"
each day:  The Americans were given guidelines for its use, but
were told in legal briefings by GCHQ lawyers: "We have a light
oversight regime compared with the US". When it came to judging
the necessity and proportionality of what they were allowed to
look for, would-be American users were told it was "your call".
...."The criteria are security, terror, organised crime. And
economic well-bei