![Top lawyer to MPs: GCHQ mass surveillance largely illegal Top lawyer to MPs: GCHQ mass surveillance largely illegal](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/gchq-surveillance-illegal-lawyer.si_-310x168.jpg)
A substantial part of the GCHQ’s dragnet snooping program is most likely illegal and was approved by government ministers despite breaching human rights and surveillance laws, a legal analysis requested by British MPs has found, The Guardian reports.