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http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=19440Ashdown: state surveillance plans counter coalition agreement12 April 2012
Lord Ashdown, a former Lib Dem leader, said his party recognised the need for government to intercept private communications when it was "necessary for national security".
But writing in The Times, he said this right was only justified when it was applied to an individual and "based on specific evidence". He said the government could not treat "us as a nation of suspects", adding that the right to intercept communications could not be justified "on the ground that the information gathered might be useful to the state at some unspecified date in the future".
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"It is difficult to see how these proposals do not run counter to the coalition agreement," he added, drawing on the government's promise to "end the storage of email and internet records without good reason".
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