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Hague: Snooping claim 'baseless'

The Foreign Secretary has dismissed claims that spy centre GCHQ used private data from US security agencies to circumvent British laws are "baseless."

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PM spokesman: GCHQ operates within the law

David Cameron's spokesman said the Prime Minister believes GCHQ operates within UK law, and that it was "fanciful" to think the agency would be trying to work out how to circumvent its legal framework. Speaking to reporters he said:

I think the PM's view is that the agencies operate within this framework and as the Foreign Secretary said the idea that in GCHQ people are sitting working out how to circumvent a UK law with another agency in another country is fanciful.

He thinks that the necessary and important frameworks are in place and that there has been a lot of questions that have been raised and the right thing to do is for the Foreign Secretary to go to the House and give a statement.

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