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plans to strengthen the Intelligence and Security Committee and the Parliament to influence their members

heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, will be implemented in public for the first time on plans to strengthen Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which is responsible for supervising their activities. Also for the first time, Parliament will have a say in deciding the composition of the Committee.

These are some of the proposals developed as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, president of the CAI, is described as "root and Investigation Branch" in the future of the Commission, which has been under increasing scrutiny. Rifkind, Conservative MP for Kensington and former Secretary of Defense and Foreign Affairs, was appointed president after the general elections last year.

said in an interview with The Guardian. "If [the security agencies and intelligence] have the power to refuse to provide information? The agencies agree that it is no longer the case. "In addition, the ministers to decide what information should be kept secret, not agencies. Agencies must have the power to a conflict of interest." It can not not be right, "said Rifkind.

ISC now, you can request information, do not. And meets only in private. "There is a serious discussion, even among the agencies, if [the CAI could have] public meetings like this," said Rifkind. "There is a reasonable possibility that next year will probably want to do it," he said, noting previous intelligence chiefs of the public discourse, including Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5, and Sir John Sawers, head of MI6 .

ISC reports to the Prime Minister, who can not censor their reports, rather than in Parliament. And members of the ICC, a mixture of peers and MPs are elected by the Prime Minister and indoctrinated in a "ring of secrecy".

also conducted research on operations - which is not foreseen in the 1994 law - for example, government complicity in secret delivery in the United States of terrorist suspects, which MI5 knew of 7.7 suicides of terrorists in London, and the use of intelligence in the preparations for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
ISC reports in Iraq shed new light on how the Blair government has been warned by the Joint Intelligence Committee that military action against Iraq would increase the risk of terrorist attacks in Britain . But the failure of security agencies to provide ISC with information about terrorist plots 7.7 and what they knew about the representation and abuse of terrorism suspects has contributed to the increasingly critical widespread that the Committee has no muscle.