"The News of the World has suspended Clive Goodman, royal editor, pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of unlawfully intercepting communications," the paper said.
The source claimed that even the conventional warrant system has been distorted – whereas police used to ask for a warrant before intercepting a target's communications, they will now ask GCHQ to intercept the target's communications and then use that information to seek a warrant.
Nato has released a video it said showed Nato jets intercepting what appeared to be two Russian Su-27 on Monday.
But even in such cases, the NSA often ends up intercepting those communications of Americans without individualized warrants, and all of this is left to the discretion of the NSA analysts with no real judicial oversight.
Every time a lawsuit is brought contesting the legality of intercepting Americans' communications without warrants, the Obama DOJ raises claims of secrecy, standing and immunity to prevent any such determination from being made.
In Google's latest run-in with the law, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals refused to exempt the firm from liability under the federal Wiretap Act for intercepting people's e-mail messages along with their network identification, signal strength, username, password and other data.
Therefore, like listening to the radio or watching television, the company reasoned that intercepting data on unsecured Wi-Fi networks was also exempt from wiretapping laws.
By mistake or intention, intercepting e-mails between private individuals was not one of the search giant's smarter moves.
Sometimes the slave ships would sail east flying a Brazilian flag and then switch on the return route to the stars and stripes, in the hope of discouraging British anti-slaving squadrons, nervous about boarding American ships, from intercepting them.
