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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Mon Aug 19, 2013, 08:04 AM Aug 2013

'It is for the police to decide when it is necessary and proportionate to use these powers.'

"Scotland Yard refused to be drawn (out) on why Miranda was stopped using powers that enable police officers to stop and question travelers at U.K. ports and airports." The BBC reports that "a Home Office spokesman said on Monday: 'Schedule 7 forms an essential part of the U.K.'s security arrangements — it is for the police to decide when it is necessary and proportionate to use these powers.'"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/19/213429697/u-k-puppets-detained-his-partner-nsa-leak-reporter-says