The British government has quietly admitted it lets MI5 break the law for national security
The British government has quietly acknowledged for the first time that it lets agents break domestic law to keep the country safe.
The admission was contained in a formal statement describing secret instructions issued by the Prime Minister to Britain's security agencies, which include MI5 (domestic intelligence), MI6 (foreign intelligence) and GCHQ (signals intelligence).
Officials delivered the written statement to the UK parliament with little fanfare. It contained an oblique reference to the civil servant who oversees MI5's rules on "agents who participate in criminality."
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