MI6 May Have Let Spies Commit Crimes in UK: Tribunal

MI6 May Have Let Spies Commit Crimes in UK: Tribunal
The MI6 building at Vauxhall, headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, in London on May 17, 2016. Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images
Mary Clark
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A UK intelligence services watchdog tribunal heard on Wednesday that MI6 may have authorised spies to commit crimes in the UK, possibly without any limits on their extent.

According to campaigners, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal found that the UK’s foreign intelligence secret service MI6 and GCHQ, its intelligence communications service, may have breached their remit by operating under a policy to break the law in the UK that the government had unjustifiably asked them to keep secret.