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For a platform for the "government's propaganda" the BBC report is prepared to voice some pretty blunt criticisms of it...

> Isabella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty, said: "The ISC shamefully spins the facts seeking to blame the communications companies for not doing the agencies' work for them."

> Executive director of the Open Rights Group, Jim Killock, said: "To pass the blame to internet companies is to use Fusilier Rigby's murder to make cheap political points."

In that respect, it's actually more critical of the government position than the equivalent article from the newspaper that broke the Snowden story: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/25/lee-rigby-rep...




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