Shshhhhhhh!

Just what right do the authorities have to keep what they are doing, supposedly for our safety, from us? We've talked about this before and it's cropped up again in relation to the Guardian newspaper publishing leaked documents about the scope of intelligence gathering both in the US and here.  The Head of MI5 has said that such revelations are damaging to national security and the Deputy PM has pitched in as well.  So - what do we think?  You would hardly imagine that would-be criminals and terrorists are not aware that their communications are potentially being intercepted, so it wouldn't come as any surprise, although perhaps it's the methodology rather than the principle that "they" would prefer remained secret.  I suppose you have to accept that if there are things you want to keep from the bad guys, you have to keep them from all of us.  Sad world, isn't it?