Will new British surveillance revelations fuel another hacking backlash?

British agency GCHQ's involvement in the NSA's global surveillance have some drawing parallels with the phone-hacking scandal that rocked the British media.

By Sara Miller Llana,?Staff writer / June 17, 2013

Rebekah Brooks (c.), former News International chief executive, leaves Southwark Crown Court in London where she appeared to face charges related to phone hacking earlier this month. Some are drawing parallels between the phone hacking scandal and the revelations of broad surveillance of phone calls and email by British spy agency GCHQ and its US counterpart, the NSA.

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The Guardian newspaper?s allegations that British intelligence agents spied on foreign diplomats at a G20 summit surely comes at an awkward moment in foreign policy circles: just as leaders gathered for the G8 in Northern Ireland.

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But it also comes at a sensitive moment for Britain itself, still reeling from the phone hacking of British media giants that has brought privacy issues to the fore of the public debate.

?The issue of the ease with which organizations can both collect and then publicize information is transforming society?s understanding about what is and what is not confidential,? says?Martin Moore of the London-based Media Standards Trust, a charity advocating more ethical practices in the British press.

The most recent allegations, against the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), are based on documents provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward?Snowden. The British newspaper reported Sunday night that the agency?spied on the phone calls and emails of diplomats who were visiting London during a G20 summit in 2009. This included setting up and tapping an Internet?caf??and?hacking the communications of the South African foreign ministry and a Turkish delegation.

The revelation comes after Mr.?Snowden?provided documentation, also to the Guardian and The Washington Post, disclosing the surveillance of common citizens by the US government in its ongoing anti-terrorism fight ? a revelation that had dismayed Europe.

But the GCHQ?scandal raises questions that relate to the 2011 phone-hacking scandal in British media, says Mr. Moore. In the earlier scandal, information that public figures and newsmakers considered private was accessible by corporations, creating a "digital footprint" and the ?potential for misuse,? he says ? much like the GCHQ spying, just with the government, instead of media corporations, doing the hacking of the public's data.

This case will turn attention to the access that governments?have to information considered private. ?We?re going to see many more conversations about what the safeguards ought to be and whether there ought to be greater openness from governments as to what [information] they are collecting and how they are using it,? Moore says.

Just this month, Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, pleaded not guilty in court in London to charges including intercepting voice-mail messages in a scandal that eventually spread to officials and other news organizations.

?The phone-hacking scandal produced massive reaction," says James Curran, director of the media studies center at the University of London, and left a society sensitive to the powers of new technologies.?

?Powerful institutions in society are now enabled through new communications technology to probe private letters without sufficient public-interest justification,? he says. The discontent has spanned the political spectrum, with both the right and left condemning an erosion of privacy. ?My hunch is there will be enormous fuss, like a snowball that gets bigger and bigger.?

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Spurs, Heat defined by stability at the top

Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra walks the sideline against the San Antonio Spurs during the first half at Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Thursday, June 13, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra walks the sideline against the San Antonio Spurs during the first half at Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Thursday, June 13, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich watches his team during NBA basketball practice, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in San Antonio. The Spurs host the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, with the best-of-seven games series even at 2-2. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Herald, David Santiago) MAGS OUT

Miami Heat owner Micky Arison, left, Vice President Basketball Operations Nick Arison, center, and Miami Heat President Pat Riley walk to the court before Game 3 in the NBA basketball finals series between the Heat and the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Herald, David Santiago)

San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt reacts during during the second half at Game 3 of the NBA Finals basketball series against the Miami Heat, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Front offices across the NBA seem to be panicking a bit these days. Job security has long been an oxymoron for coaches in this league, but even by that what-have-you-done-for-me-lately standard, this offseason has been a particularly volatile one.

Twelve coaches have been fired since the season ended, including the coach of the year and five others who led teams to the playoffs.

Setting franchise records for victories in a season gets you fired these days. Leading your team to the Western Conference finals gets you fired these days. One tough season coaching a roster full of dead-legged journeymen and still-learning rookies gets you fired these days.

"Coaching has never been valued less and blamed more," said ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy, former coach of the Knicks and Rockets. "Failure gets you fired and success gets you fired."

While the ground all around them has never been more unstable, the last two coaches standing this season have found the kind of level footing that has become increasingly rare. The San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat, tied 2-2 in the NBA Finals heading into Sunday night's Game 5, have become the models for stability and managed to rise above the chaotic fray engulfing much of the rest of the league.

"I think it's a terrible state for the profession right now," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We see it differently, the San Antonio organization and the Miami Heat organization. (To have) true success in the NBA you must have consistency of culture. When you see that type of turnover over and over and over, it's impossible to create any kind of sustainable consistent culture."

The Nuggets, Clippers, Grizzlies, Bucks, Nets and Hawks all fired their coaches after playoff runs this season. The Bobcats fired Mike Dunlap after one season on the job, while Mike Brown made it all of five games into his second season with the Lakers before he was run out of town.

Brooklyn owner Mikhail Prokhorov fired two coaches this season ? Avery Johnson less than a month after he was the Eastern Conference coach of the month and P.J. Carlesimo after the Nets lost to the Bulls in the playoffs.

"It's disappointing that Lionel Hollins takes his team to the Western Conference finals and they are going to go in another direction," Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst Magic Johnson said last week about the situation in Memphis. "You can't get better than Lionel Hollins, and you can't get better with what you have; just a tremendous season.

"Do I like what's going on today? No."

Warren LeGarie represents some of the biggest names in the coaching business, including Hollins. He said he doesn't see a crisis brewing, but he does believe periods of upheaval like this "are going to become more common than not."

"No matter what, you've got to keep your seat belts fastened because there's a lot of turbulence out there," LeGarie said. "I tell my guys to try to improve their relationship with the front office as much as possible and keep the lines of communication open. No one likes surprises."

George Karl led the Nuggets to the playoffs in all eight of his seasons and earned coach of the year honors this year after helping a starless team set a franchise record with 57 victories. He told The Denver Post that he thought the decision to fire him was "very stupid," and Gregg Popovich won't argue with him.

In his 17th season as coach of the Spurs, Popovich is the longest tenured coach in the league. The manic approach that many NBA owners take to changing coaches, in his eyes, runs counter to the philosophies that made many of them successful in other pursuits.

"As you think about it, it seems like it would apply no matter what your business is," Popovich said. "If you can have continuity, a good group, a team, so to speak, and all that that entails and keep it in a continuous manner so that it grows more or less upon itself, within itself and the knowledge and understanding continues to grow you have a pretty good understanding. You can deal with adversity and you cannot get too pumped up about success but just enjoy it and realize how fleeting it might be.

"But the change, change, change, change, change thing doesn't really work. You can see that in a lot of organizations."

Spoelstra has only been on the job five seasons, but that makes the baby-faced 42-year-old a relative gray beard in this business. He is the third-longest tenured coach in the league behind Popovich and Boston's Doc Rivers.

It all starts at the top, with Spurs owner Peter Holt and Heat owner Micky Arison long considered two of the more level-headed owners in the league. Arison has worked with President Pat Riley since 1995, while Holt, GM R.C. Buford and Popovich have been the power trio in San Antonio since 1997.

"The continuity I think breeds, it breeds trust, it breeds camaraderie, it breeds a feeling of responsibility that each member holds towards the other," Popovich said. "The ability to be excited for each other's success, not to develop territory and walls, but to stay participatory. To be able to discuss, to argue and come out at the end on the same page with the same passion and the same goals."

"And I think without continuity that's pretty impossible, because all the immediate tendencies of instant success starts to take over and that just breeds failure."

The tranquility, and volatility, seems to trickle down to the players. Before coming to the Heat three years ago, Chris Bosh spent seven seasons in Toronto. He played for three different coaches and five different general managers in that time and only made the playoffs twice.

"I've been a part of organizations where the GMs and coaches have been like musical chairs," Bosh said. "It's hard to get stability. The players are in and out. Here it's comforting to know you can work with the same people and get to know the same people."

If there was any team that could be tempted to bow to public pressure it is the Heat. Playing under a white-hot spotlight ever since LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Bosh teamed up in the summer of 2010 has brought unparalleled scrutiny. Spoelstra was deemed by some not experienced enough to coach such a star-laden roster, and Bosh has heard calls for him to be traded for two years.

The Heat ignored all of that and now find themselves in their third straight finals, two victories away from their second straight championship.

"When people don't see success right away, they just want to fire everybody and trade everybody and move on from there," Bosh said. "It takes patience. I think a lot of people up top understand that. The coaching staff understands that. I think now we're in a position to really be successful, hopefully, for a while."

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Bus tour takes gun-control fight on the road

The ceremony kicking off the Newtown, Conn., bus tour on gun control. (William Holt/Yahoo News)

Six months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, victims? families, elected officials and faith leaders gathered in Newtown, Conn., for the launch of a nationwide bus tour to step up the pressure on politicians for stronger gun-control laws and to commemorate those who were killed.

At the pretour ceremony on Friday morning, crowds gathered in front of Newtown?s Edmond Town Hall. There, a ticker counted the number of people killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook shootings that claimed the lives of 20 students and six educators. When the ceremony commenced, that number was 6,003.

?Over 6,000 have been killed by guns in six months alone,? said Steve Barton, a survivor of the July 2012 shootings in Aurora, Colo., and a speaker at Friday?s ceremony. ?More than 3,000 will be killed while this bus is on the road if we don?t do anything.?

Barton, who works with the nonprofit advocacy group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, also said, ?Today?s a day of remembrance. Not just for the victims of Newtown, but for the 33 people who are killed every day by gun violence.?

Officially titled ?No More Names: The National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence,? the bus tour was organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which was co-founded in 2006 by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

The 100-day tour will eventually travel through 25 states. While going cross-country, gun violence survivors and their family will press members of Congress to take another look at gun-control legislation and to reconsider April?s failed gun-control legislation in the Senate.

That legislation, called the Manchin-Toomey bill?named after its sponsors, Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa.?would have extended background checks to all commercial gun purchases in the U.S. It failed 54-46 on April 17.

Among those present at Friday?s ceremony was Jillian Soto, whose older sister Victoria was one of the teachers killed at Sandy Hook.

?We wanted to do something about this issue, so that she wouldn?t have died for no reason,? said Soto of her sister. ?We threw ourselves into the fight.?

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After the failure of the Manchin-Toomey bill, Soto said she ?started to feel discouraged. ? But we?d had the conversation. That?s something we conquered, just to get there.?

Soto, who described the National Rifle Association and other gun rights organizations as ?bullies,? said she would be joining the bus tour whenever she could manage. Of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, she said, ?It?s an honor to know that you have this amazing group of people who aren?t willing to let people forget.?

While the morning was marked by somberness and grief, there was nevertheless a sense of resolve about getting gun-control legislation back into the Senate.

Gilles Rousseau, the father of slain teacher Lauren Rousseau, said he was there ?to help with the cause. ? It?s not asking for much, but that?s what we?re trying to do."

The same sense of mission was present when Carlee Soto spoke to the crowd. Carlee, the younger sister of Victoria and Jillian, asked the people gathered for a 26-second moment of silence at the start of the ceremony ?to join with the 26 who have fallen.?

On Wednesday, the Soto sisters met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., to discuss efforts in the push for new gun-control legislation.

?We went to Washington, D.C., to fight for our loved ones and fight for everyone else who?s been killed by gun violence,? said Carlee after the ceremony. ?President Obama told us yesterday that this might not come in a week, next month or even a year. But he?s going to keep fighting and so are we.?

According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released just weeks before the Manchin-Toomey vote, 90 percent of Americans support expanded background checks on gun purchases.

?This is about common sense,? said First Selectman Ed Edelson of Southbury, a community just across the Housatonic River from Sandy Hook. ?The Constitution is not a suicide pact.?

The bus tour will first head north to Concord, N.H., and Augusta, Maine. Locations in other states will be announced during the week of the stop.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bus-tour-commemorating-sandy-hook-takes-gun-control-164753700.html

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Exhibit glorifies Palestinian suicide bombers

PARIS (AP) ? A state-funded museum in Paris is causing outrage among France's Jewish community for staging a photo exhibition that calls Palestinian suicide bombers "martyrs."

The exhibit, entitled "Death" by Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli, features dozens of intimate and often disturbing portraits of Palestinian suicide bombers with anti-Israeli captions that glorify their deaths.

Among the works at the Jeu de Paume museum are shots of suicide bombers from the controversial Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade ? listed as a terrorist organization by European Union and the United States.

"This is unacceptable. You have the right to be shocked when an apology for terrorists is made in the heart of Paris," said Roger Cukierman, president of CRIF, France's leading Jewish group.

"And to think this is a state-funded museum. There must be more vigilance. One minute France is fighting terrorists in Mali, and then celebrating the same ones here," he added.

Cukierman wrote to France's culture minister last week, in a letter protesting the display.

One photograph features a proud mother inside her house brandishing a photo of her son, a suicide bomber who killed 19 people in an attack on a bus in Jerusalem in 2002, according to Cukierman.

A caption on another photo says all the individuals it depicts are "martyrs" since they died "as a result of the Israeli occupation."

The museum has strongly defended its decision to stage the exhibit, saying the captions do not represent the views of the museum, but are the words of the Shibli herself.

Several signs have been put up saying the captions were written by the artist, not the museum. But the government advised the museum to make it even clearer that the photo captions only reflect Shibli's views.

The culture ministry defended the right of the museum to host the exhibit, but also said "it poses an important question: Where is the limit of freedoms to artistic expression?

A protest is planned at the museum on Sunday.

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