Vian Bakir is Professor in Political Communication and Journalism at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is author of Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda-Building Struggles (2013) and Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK (2010). She is guest editor of International Journal of Press/Politics (2015) Special Issue on News, Agenda-Building and Intelligence Agencies. She is Principal Investigator on Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series (2014-16), DATA - PSST! Debating & Assessing Transparency Arrangements: Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust; and Bangor University ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (2016-17), Political-Intelligence Elites: Towards Better Public Accountability through a Co-created Benchmark for Civil Society.