david galbraith professor david galbraith from the university of bath joins me now to talk more about this. are you expecting tough questions to be asked today. questions will be asked to do largely along the line that the u.s. . national security chief. james clapper. some time ago. and so i think the guys the people that are in charge and are going to give evidence today the chief. and i five and i sixty believe they're in trouble i believe that they are in trouble but i would say that's all of the trouble i mean i think that is much is our security services have a responsibility to make sure that we're safe and secure i think that our politicians have an even greater responsibility in having oversight and i think that most definitely many politicians will be expecting. you know some serious answers to the questions of why did they have greater oversight and do you think there will be serious actions against than then or will list just be a dressing down do you think. i think there will be serious i think there will be serious questions but whether or not we get to see the serious q

professor vinson national security david galbraith leaves the government's going to fall off. i'm getting good at it as a right to know who i'm exactly the overall ramifications of the intelligence community they are used around the parking ticket i can go and squeeze. i'm independent and independent newspaper or news organization. i'm still in the town is totally unacceptable in a democracy and freedom we have a strong judicial system which is suggesting that he has gone too far and its cargo the key indices that we have to trust our politicians that they will have copper responsible oversight of the intelligence agencies of the wines were no different than any other offers according to this note links uk intelligence was able the moment trip to six hundred million communications every day of the web the only ones own axes to them and hundred and fifty thousand nsa employees and private us contract could also take in the uk databases i was going to teach them explains put more money there and help in washington to keep an eye on the world intelligence services of five english

authorities insist miranda's actions constituted terrorism professor of international security david galbraith believes the government's going to far. i do think the public has a right to know exactly the overall ramifications of the intelligence community mostly i think that the issue around how far the u.k. government can go in squeezing an independent and independent newspaper or news organization is totally is totally unacceptable within a democracy and we have a strong judicial system which is suggesting that the government is going too far and its crackdown on the government but here is that we have to have trust in our and out of the titians that they will have proper responsible oversight of the intelligence agencies otherwise we're no different than any other not asking. what according to the snowden leaks you can tell agents was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day they were the only ones either that had access to the may turn hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contractors' could also dig into u.k. databases and this garniture can e

threatened publishers of intelligence leaks with legal action but has there been a national security david galbraith believes the government's going too far. i do think the public has a right to know exactly the over already i think asians of the intelligence community most definitely i think that the issue around how far the u.k. government can go in squeezing an independent and independent newspaper or news organization is totally is totally unacceptable within a democracy and we have a strong judicial system which is suggesting that in fact the government is going too far and its crackdown on the government but the key thing is that we have to have trust in our politicians that they will have proper responsible oversight of the intelligence agencies otherwise we're no different than the other not at all. now according to the n.s.a. leaks british intelligence was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day he was looking at them eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contractors that had access to british databases britain spying mass to add is berlin