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HARDtalk: Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP

Sir Malcolm Rifkind

15/10/2013 GMT

Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP

BBC News - HARDtalk, Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP

Stephen Sackur meets Intelligence and Security Committee's chairman, Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

HARDtalk meets Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. Is the security state a potential threat to those it's supposed to protect?

Thanks to Edward Snowden, America's cyber-spy turned leaker, we now know US intelligence agencies backed by the British secretly monitor electronic communications all over the world. In Britain, Snowden's revelations have prompted a ferocious argument between self-styled defenders of liberty and pillars of the security establishment. HARDtalk speaks to Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. Is the security state a potential threat to those it's supposed to protect?

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