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18. Guardian Editor Says British Intelligence Agents Destroyed Their Hard Drives After Snowden Story
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 06:18 AM
Aug 2013
http://www.businessinsider.com/guardian-editor-says-british-intelligence-agents-destroyed-their-hard-drives-2013-8

In an opinion piece posted Monday afternoon to the Guardian website, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger defended the Guardian's acceptance of documents from Wikileaks in 2010 and his paper's practices on the Edward Snowden story — including using reporter Glenn Greenwald's domestic partner to ferry documents between Germany and Brazil.
He also issued a scathing indictment of the tactics of the British cyber intelligence arm, the Government Communications Headquarters.

In a particularly revealing moment, Rusbridger said he was contacted by an agent of the GCHQ, who said "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back," referring to the classified material provided to the paper by Snowden.

Rusbridger said he asked the official if the British government intended to shut down the paper. The official said that in the absence of the handover or destruction of classified material, that was indeed the intention.



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