BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- A Guardian editor says that British authorities have forced the newspaper to destroy material leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Alan Rusbridger says the paper was threatened with legal action if it did not comply to destroy the computer hard drives, which contained copies of the leaks. But he adds that the move will not prevent the paper’s further reporting on U.S. and British surveillance programs.
In a column in the paper on Tuesday, Rusbridger also blames the detention at London’s Heathrow Airport of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald.
Greenwald was the first journalist to publish U.S. and British intelligence secrets leaked by Snowden. Greenwald has vowed to publish more revelations and said Britain would regret detaining his partner.
(Source: cntv.cn)
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