| Summary/Abstract |
Lawyers focus on the regulation and control of activities. Intelligence was previously regarded as something that was on, or even beyond, the boundaries of what should be regulated and controlled by means of the law. If statutory law (i.e., acts passed by parliament) governed intelligence agencies at all, then the provisions tended to be in very general terms, leaving considerable interpretative scope to the agencies themselves (or, at least their taskmasters, the relevant government departments).
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