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Former MI5 boss Dame Stella Rimington has accused the Government of exploiting people's fear of terrorism to restrict civil liberties.
She said ministers risked handing a victory to terrorists by making people "live in fear and under a police state".
Dame Stella, who stood down as the Security Service's director general in 1996, also accused the US of going too far.