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David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files

dryriver writes "The Guardian reports: 'British Prime Minister David Cameron has encouraged a Commons select committee to investigate whether the Guardian has broken the law or damaged national security by publishing secrets leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. He made his proposal in response to a question from former defense secretary Liam Fox, saying the Guardian had been guilty of double standards for exposing the scandal of phone hacking by newspapers and yet had gone on to publish secrets from the NSA taken by Snowden. Speaking at prime minister's questions on Wednesday, Cameron said: "The plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security and in many ways the Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and cabinet secretary to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files. So they know that what they're dealing with is dangerous for national security."'" Destroyed their copies of some files, certainly, but it's not like others don't have the files too.

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  1. Stick to the script. by retech · · Score: 5, Funny

    He really needs to just focus on making a bad sequel to Avatar and shut the hell up.

  2. Re:series of tube? by kommakazi · · Score: 2, Funny

    My WiFi network is named 'a series of tubes', so I am indeed posting this on the internet through a series of tubes.

  3. Re:series of tube? by disposable60 · · Score: 2, Funny

    My 802.11n WiFi is ASeriesOfTubes, and my 802.11g is AConvoyOfDumpTrucks

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  4. Re:Double standards? by fair_n_hite_451 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who the fuck is Emmanual Assange?

    See, that whole "unperson" thing is already working...

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  5. Re:series of tube? by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    One, David Beckham makes loads of money, and he can barely string a coherent sentence together.

    Two, most of money Cameron "makes" is via inherited investments. He's never had a real-world job.

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