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David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files

Posted by Unknown on from the damaging-national-security-for-the-public-good dept.

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. Double standards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    Anybody else who has a problem with understanding just where Cameron is seeing double standards applied?

  2. Doulbe Standard by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    How is exposing 2 cases of illegal invasion of privacy a double standard? And if exposing certain actions can damage national security, then those actions probably weren't a good idea to begin with, or at least certainly were not worth the cost.

    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

    Were the people politely asking also holding a wrench by any chance?

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  3. damned if u do damned if u don't by schlachter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    so they are more guilty because they tried to cooperate and destroy files when asked to do so by the gov?
    so next time they will use this lesson to refuse to destroy docs.
    and they will be tried for failing to destroy the docs. there's no winning.

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  4. Great quote from Ron Paul sums this up: by RoTNCoRE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The truth becomes treason in an empire of lies."