Lets break this DoublethinkTM down shall we?
“The prime minister, home secretary and I are determined we should draw a line under the debate by legislating early in the next parliament to give our agencies clearly and transparently the powers they need" - They seek to prevent dissenting opinions and investigative action by enacting legislation that enhances the powers of GCHQ. These enhanced powers must also come with some rather interesting defensive clauses.
** "and to ensure our oversight regime keeps pace with technological change and addresses the reasonable concerns of our citizens.”**
- ensure through unstated means that the secret and non-elected regulatory body responsible for the oversight of these programs "addresses" the "reasonable" concerns
* misrepresentation of the definition of the term "address" to imply anything other than "be aware of"
* Restricts the concerns of citizens to be addressed to those that are "reasonable". Reserves the right to define "reasonable".
But lets not get stuck with this little quote. Lets move on to something more interesting.
“From my position as foreign secretary, and with a full appreciation of the constraints and regulations within which (GCHQ) operates, I am quite clear that the ability to intercept bulk communications data, to subject that metadata to electronic analysis and seek to extract the tiny, tiny percentage of communications that may be of any direct security interest"
- Does not qualify or restrict the term "communication"
- Defines the extraction as analysis beyond that of metadata
- Defines all communication to be subject to extraction as any communication may be of some interest.
- Implies there may be an interest which is non-direct and further that if an interest were non-direct that the possibility of it becoming direct does not exist. AKA: Catch22
"does not represent an enhancement of the agencies’ powers. Rather it represents an adaptation of those powers to the realities of the 21st century,” - Implies the aforementioned extraction of all communication is normal - Defines the extraction of all communication as those powers which will be increased and added to at the beginning of the next session of parliament (see previous quote)
If they are already extracting, or have the ability to extract without the need for justification, every communication then what else could they possibly want to do? I very much look forward to reading that proposed legislation.