Sentence examples for lighter oversight from inspiring English sources

You've got their own admission in their own documents that "we've got a much lighter oversight regime than we should have", full stop.

legal adviser declared: "We have a light oversight regime compared with the U.S".

The Americans were given guidelines for its use, but were told in legal briefings by GCHQ lawyers: "We have a light oversight regime compared with the US".

One of Cheltenham's senior legal advisers put the possible attraction for their American counterparts this way: "We have a light oversight regime compared with the US".

In confidential briefings, one of Cheltenham's senior legal advisers, whom the Guardian will not name, made a note to tell his guests: "We have a light oversight regime compared with the US".

While the NSA is supposedly overseen by a foreign intelligence surveillance court – now exposed as ineffective through being secret – GCHQ professes "a light oversight regime compared with the US".

Their own private documents, classified documents they never expect the public to see, say something very different, which is, "We have a very light oversight regime compared to all other western countries".

The senior GCHQ legal adviser noted to his NSA counterparts that "[w]e have a light oversight regime compared with the US", adding that the parliamentary committee meant to oversee the agency had "always been exceptionally good at understanding the need to keep our work secret".

That is but a dated glimpse of a vast expansion of government monitoring of electronic communications with light judicial oversight and vanishingly little public information.

According to material leaked by Mr Snowden – a former US intelligence analyst currently still stranded inside Moscow airport – legal briefings offered by UK lawyers to their US counterparts assured them that GCHQ operated under a "light-touch oversight regime".

Between 2005 and 2007, this figure has gone up by more than 19%, thanks to speeding and a lack of security barriers, lighting, and police oversight.