Guardian editor to face lawmakers on Snowden leaks

[jakeXT]

Source: Associated Press

LONDON (AP) -- The editor of the Guardian newspaper will be questioned by British lawmakers over his paper's publication of files leaked by ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

The paper confirmed in a statement on Saturday that Alan Rusbridger will appear to testify before Parliament's home affairs select committee next month.

The committee hearing follows warnings from Britain's top three spy chiefs on Thursday that Al-Qaida and other terror groups were "rubbing their hands in glee" in the wake of Snowden's leaks.

In an unprecedented public parliamentary hearing, they said that terror groups are trying to switch to more secure means of communication as a result of the revelations.

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[Demeter]

1. Are they too cheap to subscribe?

can't their administrative assistants locate the websites?

What did they think terrorists (the paltry number in existence which hardly requires the BILLIONS spent annually...about a billion per terrorist?) were going to do, post their locations on FaceBook ?

[billhicks76]

2. Backwards

It should be the other way around. The lawmakers should have to appear before the journalists.

[bemildred]

3. Why did our intelligence security arrangements fail so catastrophically?

Why was one not-that-impressive nerd able to disembowel the NSA? What does that tell us about the NSA and the people that run it?

[jakeXT]

4. He also worked for CIA and BOOZ... just sayin

“It slipped through the cracks,” one veteran law enforcement official said of the report.

Spokesmen for the C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I. all declined to comment on the precise nature of the warning and why it was not forwarded, citing the investigation into Mr. Snowden’s activities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/cia-warning-on-snowden-in-09-said-to-slip-through-the-cracks.html?_r=0

[bemildred]

5. I was in defense as a contactor for 17 years, I worked for five companies,

one of which was swallowed, and the successor was then swallowed too, and one more time. And I'm relatively stable, I go for the work more than the money.