MPs: Snowden files are 'embarrassing indictment' of British spying oversight
All-party committee demands reforms to make security and intelligence services accountable in wake of disclosures
The report says the current system of oversight of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, pictured, is 'designed to scrutinise the work of George Smiley, not the 21st-century reality'. Photograph: Reuters
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday 9 May 2014
Edward Snowden's disclosures of the scale of mass surveillance are "an embarrassing indictment" of the weak nature of the oversight and legal accountability of Britain's security and intelligence agencies, MPs have concluded.
