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HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong's security chief said on Friday (Jan 15) that police surveillance of communications can come under the city's national security law, potentially giving officers broader powers of interception. Mr John Lee, speaking at an online Legislative Council meeting on security, said the Committee of Safeguarding National Security would have oversight over such surveillance operations. "If it involves crimes endangering national security, they will be dealt with the rules and mechanisms established under the National Security Law," Mr Lee said. "There are strict regulations on how to deal with the results obtained, when to destroy them,...