Mass surveillance

'In a Free Society You Cannot Keep All People Under Surveillance' - Professor

The UK intelligence service MI5 might have been able to prevent the deadly terrorist attack in Manchester, according to a report by lawyer David Anderson QC as cited by the Guardian. Dr. Anthony Glees, professor of political science at the University of Buckingham spoke to Radio Sputnik about this report.

Dr. Anthony Glees: It is a very thoughtful report written by somebody who for six years was the independent reviewer of the government’s counter-terrorist legislation. He really does know what he is talking about and I think his conclusion will be taken very seriously. Of course as he himself says, he was writing with hindsight. Hindsight is a very wonderful thing; it’s clear from his report that Salman Abedi but not just Salman Abedi, the London killers as well, were not just on the radar of MI5 but if a few more pieces of the jigsaw had been put together then perhaps Salman Abedi could have been prevented from killing those people in Manchester.