{"id":850,"date":"2020-12-01T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/exclusive-declassified-uk-blacklisted-by-gchq-britains-largest-intelligence-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:00:57","slug":"exclusive-declassified-uk-blacklisted-by-gchq-britains-largest-intelligence-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/exclusive-declassified-uk-blacklisted-by-gchq-britains-largest-intelligence-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Declassified UK blacklisted by GCHQ, Britain\u2019s largest intelligence agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u2018We are not engaging with [Matt Kennard]\u2019, internal GCHQ email says.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u2018Watch out watch out there\u2019s a journo about\u2019 is subject line of one email thread.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>GCHQ monitored Twitter account of Declassified editor, Mark Curtis, and put out internal \u2018Media Alert\u2019 for one <em>Declassified<\/em> investigation.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Civil Service Code states: \u2018You must not: act in a way that unjustifiably favours or discriminates against particular individuals or interests.\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reporters Without Borders calls it \u2018a Trumpian move that has no place in British democracy\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Declassified was previously blacklisted by Ministry of Defence which has since apologised and ordered a parliamentary review.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Media organisation <em>Declassified UK<\/em> was blacklisted by Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain\u2019s signals intelligence agency, internal emails from the organisation show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCHQ staff said they would \u201cnot be engaging further\u201d with Matt Kennard, <em>Declassified<\/em>\u2019s head of investigations, and decided to \u201cignore\u201d his requests for information on articles he was writing about a controversial GCHQ programme in British schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear if the blacklisting continues. However, the last query Kennard sent to GCHQ\u2019s press office concerning another story, on 23 September, also received no response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emails are revealed in the results of a so-called subject access request which Kennard submitted to GCHQ in September to obtain any data the agency held on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard, a former journalist at the <em>Financial Times<\/em> who co-founded <em>Declassified<\/em> last year, first approached GCHQ in September 2019 asking for details of its Cyber Schools Hub (CSH) programme, also known as CyberFirst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In subsequent months, some basic information about the programme was provided by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of GCHQ which manages the schools programme. However, an interview with a CSH administrator and a visit to one of the schools were refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Declassified<\/em> published a three-part investigation in June. The articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-02-revealed-the-uks-largest-intelligence-agency-is-infiltrating-british-schools\/\">revealed<\/a> that the CSH operates in twice the number of schools as officially claimed, including primary schools, and has gained access to at least 22,000 primary and secondary school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCHQ was also revealed to be secretively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-03-revealed-harry-potter-british-spies-and-the-arms-corporations-penetrating-uk-schools\/\">promoting<\/a> arms companies involved in war crimes to school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778698\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778698\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeremy Fleming, the head of GCHQ. (Photo: GCHQ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCSC stopped responding to Kennard\u2019s questions after <em>Declassified<\/em> published the first investigation, which included comments from the NCSC, on 2 June. Kennard did not receive a response to the last three emails he sent to the NCSC regarding the schools programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refusing to engage with a journalist because their stories are perceived as \u201cnegative\u201d would appear to breach the UK\u2019s Civil Service Code, which <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:IzaS7U6KZVYJ:https:\/\/www.heidrick.com\/-\/media\/AF729513678141EF8CEC9A48FF6F9E4D.ashx+&amp;cd=3&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-b-d\">states<\/a>: \u2018You must not: act in a way that unjustifiably favours or discriminates against particular individuals or interests.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018Watch out watch out there\u2019s a journo about\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The earliest email disclosed by the subject access request shows that internal GCHQ correspondence discussing Kennard on 24 February 2020 had a subject line entitled \u201cRE: Watch out watch out there\u2019s a journo about\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last email Kennard had sent to the NCSC was on 16 October 2019, more than four months before, suggesting the February email thread was sparked by Kennard arriving in-person that day at Cleeve School, the lead \u201chub\u201d in the programme which is located near Cheltenham, southwest England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard\u2019s records show he asked the receptionist at Cleeve \u2013 a 20-minute drive from GCHQ\u2019s headquarters in Cheltenham \u2013 for an interview at 1.22pm. The internal GCHQ email was sent just over half an hour later, at 1.59pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The receptionist initially promised to arrange an interview, but after making a phone call, she said all relevant staff were busy and to try later. Kennard returned later in the day and was told again that no relevant staff were available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is likely the school tipped off GCHQ who told them not to facilitate an interview. The only email from the thread disclosed by GCHQ reads: \u201cInteresting! Thanks for flagging, [redacted] I think this is the journalist who approached us a while back asking questions including funding\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778699\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778699\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Internal email from GCHQ, revealed by subject access request by Declassified\u2019s Matt Kennard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the GCHQ emails discussing Kennard date from 2 June, the day <em>Declassified<\/em> published its first investigation into the schools programme and when the blacklisting began. An email sent at 11.53am noted that \u201cNCSC are dealing with this chap\u201d but that \u201c[redacted] is going to ignore of course.\u201d It is not known which individual GCHQ was referring to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another email, sent at 12.04pm, contained the first reaction to the investigation published that morning. It appears to have provided a hyperlink to the <em>Declassified<\/em> article, describing it as \u201ca negative long-read\u201d on the CSH programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added: \u201cThe article details various alleged suspicions with the initiative, claiming that it\u2019s a vehicle for GCHQ and NCSC to spy on and recruit children. It also critically reviews materials relevant to the programme like lessons presented on courses and newsletters, with a mention of collaboration with law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email continued: \u201cThe journalist has approached NCSC Comms several times over the last six months or so and seems to have a particular interest in the CSH programme. Comms has rebutted all of his claims to date, working closely with officials in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email then noted that \u201cthe journalist is expected to publish another article on CSH\/CyberFirst Schools tomorrow and this will focus on how we are working with arms dealers e.g. BAE, on this initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It concluded: \u201cHe has put the following questions to NCSC Comms and we will not be engaging further.\u201d The email then lists Kennard\u2019s six questions, which were not answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another email, sent just over an hour later at 13.09, reiterated: \u201cWe will not be engaging further, but monitoring for further coverage and pickup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-778700 size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778700\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Internal email from GCHQ, revealed by subject access request by Declassified\u2019s Matt Kennard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018274 retweets\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, when <em>Declassified<\/em> published its second investigation \u2013 on GCHQ\u2019s promotion of arms companies in schools \u2013 an internal email was sent at 5.11pm addressed to \u201cAll\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This warned intelligence officers \u201cto be aware we\u2019re expecting another article on CSH\/CyberFirst Schools to drop from the Daily Maverick tomorrow\u201d, referring to the news site where <em>Declassified<\/em> publishes its articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email again reiterated the blacklisting: \u201cWe are not engaging with the journalist and haven\u2019t received any follow-up calls from other outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This email included an addendum with the title \u201cTwitter\u201d followed by a redaction. Underneath, a GCHQ officer noted that \u201cThe top tweet is from Declassified Editor <u>Mark Curtis<\/u>\u201d and pasted the text of Curtis\u2019 tweet from the previous day promoting <em>Declassified<\/em>\u2019s first investigation, noting that it had received 274 retweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is assumed Curtis\u2019 name is underlined because GCHQ had included a hyperlink to direct its officers to the original tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778701\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Internal email from GCHQ, revealed by subject access request by Declassified\u2019s Matt Kennard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final email disclosed by GCHQ, dating from 8 June, has the subject line: \u201cRE: [MEDIA ALERT] Daily Maverick: REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools\u201d. It appears to concern a request from another journalist and asks: \u201cI wonder if they are working together on this? Maybe an attempt to keep up the momentum?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not known who these questions were from. The other emails in the \u201cMedia Alert\u201d thread were not disclosed by GCHQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778702\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778702\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Internal email from GCHQ, revealed by subject access request by Declassified\u2019s Matt Kennard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>School secrecy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the CSH affects more than 20,000 British children, it has proven difficult for Kennard to get basic information from the schools themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard asked Cleeve School for information using the Freedom of Information Act. However, the IT teacher running the programme, Martin Peake, wrote back stating: \u201cThe information requested is exempt under section 23(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which relates to information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peake added that this is \u201can absolute exemption and does not, therefore require the application of the public interest test in favour of disclosure\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard\u2019s email and phone requests for interviews sent to Cleeve \u2013 and its sister \u201chub\u201d Newent Community School, in Gloucestershire \u2013 were initially answered, but then ignored. As with Cleeve, Kennard eventually drove to Newent and was able to conduct an interview with the head teacher after arriving unannounced. The interview, however, was strictly off the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloscol.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2020\/09\/gloucestershire-college-awarded-by-the-national-cyber-security-centre-a-part-of-gchq-for-excellence-in-cyber-security-education\/\">said<\/a> it wants to roll out GCHQ\u2019s schools programme \u2013 which has so far operated mainly in Gloucestershire \u2013 nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778703\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-6-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778703\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cleeve School in Gloucestershire, southwest England. The lead school in GCHQ\u2019s school programme, its staff likely tipped off GCHQ about Kennard asking for an interview minutes after this photo was taken in February. (Photo: Matt Kennard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018Destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>GCHQ, which takes the bulk of the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/738479\/SIA_Accounts_HC1509_Web_Version.pdf\">\u00a32.48-billion<\/a> budgeted for the UK\u2019s intelligence agencies in its Single Intelligence Account, is a controversial agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Files revealed by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/07\/uk-surveillance-powers-to-be-considered-by-europes-highest-human-rights-court\/\"> show<\/a> that it had been secretly intercepting, processing and storing data concerning millions of people\u2019s private communications, including people of no intelligence interest \u2013 in a programme named<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2013\/jun\/21\/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa\"> Tempora<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2018\/09\/campaigners-win-vital-battle-against-uk-mass-surveillance\/\"> ruled<\/a> that UK laws enabling such mass surveillance were unlawful, violating rights to privacy and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCHQ has also operated offensive cyber operations against countries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/04\/02\/gchq-argentina-falklands\/\">Argentina<\/a> and plays a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gchq.gov.uk\/information\/simon-works-military-gchqs-behalf-iraq\"> key role<\/a> in UK military interventions overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British government last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55007946\">announced<\/a> the creation of a National Cyber Force to conduct offensive cyber operations, which will reportedly involve 3,000 staff from GCHQ, the secret intelligence service, MI6, and the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GCHQ also has a secret cyber warfare unit, named the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), which takes 5% of the organisation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/harpercollins.co.uk\/products\/gchq-richard-aldrich?variant=32716547686478\">budget<\/a>. Its stated purpose is to \u201cdestroy, deny, degrade, disrupt\u201d enemies by \u201cdiscrediting\u201d them, and its operations<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2014\/02\/24\/jtrig-manipulation\/\"> include<\/a> \u201choney traps\u201d, \u201cfalse flags\u201d (posing as an enemy), or \u201cwriting a blog purporting to be one of their victims\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Richard J. Aldrich, a professor at Warwick University and author of the authoritative <a href=\"https:\/\/harpercollins.co.uk\/products\/gchq-richard-aldrich?variant=32716547686478\">history<\/a> of GCHQ, \u201cOne of the enemies on JTRIG\u2019s list are investigative journalists who pose a \u2018potential threat to security.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snowden also <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/06\/22\/controversial-gchq-unit-domestic-law-enforcement-propaganda\/\">revealed<\/a> that one of GCHQ\u2019s \u201ctop objectives\u201d in the recent past was the \u201cdelivery of a reporting service on radicalisation\u201d for the UK Department for Children, Schools and Families (now the Department for Education), assumed to be targeted at children in schools. It is unclear if the CSH programme is part of this \u201creporting service\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current head of GCHQ is Jeremy Fleming who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gchq.gov.uk\/person\/jeremy-fleming\">joined<\/a> MI5, Britain\u2019s domestic security service, as an intelligence officer in 1993. Since being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/mar\/20\/gchq-appoints-mi5-jeremy-fleming-as-director\">appointed<\/a> director of GCHQ in 2017, he has, according to the agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gchq.gov.uk\/person\/jeremy-fleming\">concentrated<\/a> on ensuring its work is \u201cas transparent as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleming was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gchq.gov.uk\/news\/foreign-secretary-appoints-new-director-gchq\">appointed<\/a> by prime minister Boris Johnson, who was then foreign secretary, and now reports to Dominic Raab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778704\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778704\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A slide from JTRIG, a secretive cyber warfare unit of GCHQ, which outlines the methods it uses to discredit targets, which are said to include investigative journalists, leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-second-blacklisting\"><strong>The second blacklisting<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard\u2019s subject access request from GCHQ returned six internal emails, as well as two external emails sent to the NCSC, but the collection is incomplete. A number of emails are replies to threads from which no other emails have been disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emails also only disclosed correspondence related to the first two investigations by <em>Declassified<\/em>, ignoring the third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third investigation, the most sensitive in the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-04-revealed-veterans-of-the-uk-militarys-cyber-warfare-unit-are-teaching-school-children-how-to-launch-cyber-attacks\/\">revealed<\/a> how GCHQ\u2019s schools programme operates in partnership with Cyber Security Associates (CSA) \u2013 a company set up by former members of the UK military\u2019s Joint Cyber Offensive Unit, which is housed at GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Declassified<\/em> revealed that CSA was teaching children how to spy on others, to hack, and launch \u201cbrute force\u201d cyber attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard said: \u201cI find it outrageous that the country\u2019s largest intelligence agency \u2013 funded by the British public to the tune of over a billion pounds annually \u2013 just stops engaging with a journalist because it believes his stories paint GCHQ\u2019s operations in a \u2018negative\u2019 light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s doubly worrying in this case because the programme I wanted some basic information on involves thousands of children. In a system that calls itself a democracy, we have a right to know what these types of programmes involve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-778706\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Declassified-GCHQblacklist-inset-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-778706\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An internal GCHQ slide leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden which shows the agency\u2019s aim to \u2018ensure delivery of reporting service on radicalisation\u2019 to the UK government\u2019s Department of Children, Schools and Families.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennard worked as a staff reporter for the <em>Financial Times<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/328aaab2-48ed-11e0-af8c-00144feab49a\">Washington DC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6ba2792e-d00b-11e0-81e2-00144feabdc0\">New York<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3dc66d62-f4bb-11de-9cba-00144feab49a\">London<\/a> after graduating from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was then <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/CIJournalism\/posts\/10157839966670478\">Director<\/a> of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, before <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/11953540\/more\">co-founding<\/a> <em>Declassified UK,<\/em> with Mark Curtis, in 2019. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1780-irregular-army\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zedbooks.net\/shop\/book\/the-racket\/\">books<\/a> investigating US military and economic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, <em>Declassified<\/em> discovered it was <a href=\"https:\/\/ipi.media\/investigative-news-outlet-declassified-uk-blacklisted-by-ministry-of-defence\/\">blacklisted<\/a> by the Ministry of Defence when staff reporter Phil Miller was told by a spokesman \u201cwe no longer deal with your publication\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a level-two press freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/press-freedom-uk-government-council-europe-alert-boris-johnson-priti-patel-a9706741.html\">alert<\/a> was issued by the Council of Europe, defence secretary Ben Wallace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/british-government-apologises-for-blacklisting-declassified-uk-\/s2\/a761454\/\">reversed<\/a> the blacklisting and ordered an independent review of the case, which is due to be published imminently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the British government was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/dark-money-investigations\/uk-government-running-orwellian-unit-to-block-release-of-sensitive-information\/\">revealed<\/a> to be running a \u2018Clearing House\u2019 unit in the Cabinet Office which instructs Whitehall departments on how to respond to freedom of information requests and shares personal information about specific journalists, who it may be blacklisting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Vincent, director of international campaigns at Reporters Without Borders, told <em>Declassified<\/em>: \u201cThis is yet another worrying example of the UK government imposing arbitrary restrictions on media deemed to be critical \u2013 a Trumpian move that has no place in British democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent added: \u201cGCHQ and all governmental bodies must behave transparently and be open to public scrutiny in line with the UK&#8217;s commitment to freedom of information. <em>Declassified<\/em> must be able to pursue its public interest reporting unfettered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the NCSC said: \u201cPublic engagement is at the heart of everything the NCSC does in its work to make the UK the safest place to live and work online. We carefully considered the requests from this publication, as we would with any other, and provided it with both background information and on-the-record comment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can read Declassified\u2019s three-part investigation into GCHQ\u2019s schools programme <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-02-revealed-the-uks-largest-intelligence-agency-is-infiltrating-british-schools\/\"><em>here (1)<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-03-revealed-harry-potter-british-spies-and-the-arms-corporations-penetrating-uk-schools\/\"><em>here (2)<\/em><\/a><em>, and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-06-04-revealed-veterans-of-the-uk-militarys-cyber-warfare-unit-are-teaching-school-children-how-to-launch-cyber-attacks\/\"><em>here (3<\/em><\/a><em>).&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal emails from GCHQ show the organisation decided it 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