article_snippet: Intelligence and Security Committee concluded that the only items seen by analysts were those of the ‘highest intelligence value’, and these amounted to several thousand a day.
article_snippet: The truth is that the filtering process means that a tiny proportion of the bulk data that is collected is ever examined.
article_snippet: Dr Julian Lewis, compared the process to using a magnet to pull a needle from a haystack.
article_snippet: using a magnet to pull a needle from a haystack does not have the ‘legal authority, the resources or the technical capability’ to intercept such vast amounts of material, the Intelligence and Security Committee's long-awaited report into Britain's spy agencies concluded.
article_snippet: We have explored whether this is the case.