Blanket snooping is abuse of power

BRITAIN'S police and MI5 and MI6 spy agencies are understandably living in dread of a world-shaking terror attack on the summer Olympics. 

Indeed they are so afraid of a new 9/11 that they plan an unprecedented invasion of our individual privacy.

All phone calls, texts, tweets and computer keystrokes are to be monitored, kept on file and used as and when seen fit.

This massive escalation in intelligence gathering has been condemned even by senior Tory MPs as nothing less than snooping.

Yet as innocent citizens are caught in this net, convicted extremists are openly recruiting jihadists under our noses.        More Read