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".
The light touch authorisation and oversight regime that GCHQ has been enjoying should never have been permitted.
Then the editorial - presumably written by the editor, Lionel Barber, or at least with his close oversight - touches on the likely outcome should the privy council prefer the politicians' charter to the industry's version.
Another key area the interview touched on was surveillance oversight.
Last week, legislators announced that they had agreed on a bipartisan bill that would allow the schools to stay open, while requiring online teachers to keep closely in touch with students and increasing state oversight.
If they believe they have among their five finalists someone with a magic touch — someone who can answer all the oversight questions and put the department on the right track — then it makes sense to go ahead with an appointment.
The administration has been under pressure to root out mortgage fraud and improve oversight after the housing bubble touched off a global economic slide and led to a cascade of home foreclosures in the United States.
Telecom executives and analysts from India and around the world accuse India's communications ministry of being out of touch with the industry, and too bureaucratic to handle oversight of a fast-growing, technology-heavy industry.
It's also highly political not only because donors to the Mayor are involved, but because the NYPD has grown so powerful that no oversight agency or city or state officials will touch it.
Touch 'Em All, which is based in Denver, has plenty of oversight: donations go directly into a charitable account set up by Merrill Lynch, which is available for review by agents and athletes.
(Physio 2) Paradoxically, this resulted in the opposite concern: that there was insufficient contact to enable the Light-Touch professionals to feel that they were providing adequate support and oversight.
