UK hearing on mass government surveillance wraps up after 'farcical' week

Headline Title: UK hearing on mass government surveillance wraps up after 'farcical' week 18 July 2014 Today's closure of a week-long hearing into allegations that the UK government has been illegally intercepting millions of communications, including those of Amnesty International, concludes an exercise that often descended into pure farce, the organization said. "This week's hearing descended at times into the realms of farce and fantasy - thanks to the government's insistence they would neither confirm nor deny any of their surveillance activities," said Michael…

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