27 August 2013

Government Agents Went to the Guardian Offices and Oversaw Smashing of Hard Drives to Erase Snowden Files 

By Alex Kane


Rusbridger described [3]various attempts at intimidation that the British government made before he agreed to finally destroy the hard drives. In an interview with the BBC [4], Rusbridger explained that "given that there were other copies and we could work out of America, which has better laws to protect journalists, I saw no reason not to destroy this material ourselves rather than hand it back to the government." Rusbridger said that the alternative to destroying the hard drives--a move forced by the government--was a court case with little prospect of winning.

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