Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Censura a occidente Distrutti gli hard disk del guardian

 
Viva il Guardian
 
 
(Reuters) - The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based 
on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the 
British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it 
either destroyed the classified documents or handed them back to British 
authorities.
 
In an article posted on the British newspaper's website on Monday, Guardian 
editor Alan Rusbridger said that a month ago, after the newspaper had 
published several stories based on Snowden's material, a British official 
advised him: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back."
 
After further talks with the government, Rusbridger said, two "security 
experts" from Government Communications Headquarters, the British equivalent 
of the ultra-secretive U.S. National Security Agency, visited the Guardian's 
London offices.
 
In the building's basement, Rusbridger wrote, government officials watched 
as computers which contained material provided by Snowden were physically 
pulverized. "We can call off the black helicopters," Rusbridger says one of 
the officials joked.
 
The Guardian's decision to publicize the government threat - and the 
newspaper's assertion that it can continue reporting on the Snowden 
revelations from outside of Britain - appears to be the latest step in an 
escalating battle between the news media and governments over reporting of 
secret surveillance programs.
 
On Sunday, British authorities detained for nine hours the domestic partner 
of Glenn Greenwald, a Guardian writer who met face to face in Hong Kong with 
Snowden and has written or co-authored many of the newspaper's stories based 
on his material.
 
The Guardian reported, and UK authorities subsequently confirmed, that David 
Miranda, Greenwald's Brazilian partner, was detained by British authorities 
under an anti-terrorism law as he was in transit from Berlin to Brazil and 
was changing planes at London's Heathrow Airport.
 
One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the 
British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a 
message to recipients of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that 
the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks.
 
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday that while the 
United States did not ask British authorities to detain Miranda, British 
officials had given the United States a "heads up" about the British 
government's plan to question him.
 
Rusbridger, in his article on the Guardian's website, said that despite the 
destruction of thecomputers in London, he told British officials that due to 
the nature of "international collaborations" among journalists, it would 
remain possible for media organizations to "take advantage of the most 
permissive legal environments." Henceforth, he said, the Guardian "did not 
have to do our reporting from London."
 
A source familiar with the matter said that this meant British authorities 
were on notice that the Guardian was likely to continue to report on the 
Snowden revelations from outside British government jurisdiction.
 
Rusbridger said that in meetings with British officials before the computers 
were destroyed, he told them the Guardian could not do its journalistic duty 
if it gave in to the government's requests.
 
In response, he wrote, a government official told him that the newspaper had 
already achieved the aim of sparking a debate on government surveillance. 
"You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more," the unnamed 
official was quoted as saying.
 
During Miranda's trip to Berlin, which the Guardian said it had paid for, he 
visited with Laura Poitras, an independent film-maker who was the first 
journalist to interact with Snowden. Poitras co-authored stories based on 
Snowden's material for the Washington Post and the German magazine Der 
Spiegel.
 
Greenwald told the New York Times that Miranda went to Berlin to deliver 
materials downloaded by Snowden to Poitras and to acquire from Poitras a 
different set of materials for delivery to Greenwald, who lives with Miranda 
near Rio de Janeiro.
 
Greenwald said British authorities seized all electronic media, including 
data memory sticks, which Miranda was carrying. But Greenwald told the 
Forbes website that "everything" Miranda had "was heavily encrypted."
 
Greenwald did not immediately respond to an email from Reuters requesting 
comment.
 
While British authorities confirmed that Miranda had been detained under an 
anti-terrorism law, they did not further explain their actions. Brazil's 
government complained about Miranda's detention in a statement on Sunday 
that said the use of the British anti-terrorism law was unjustified.
 
(Editing by Warren Strobel and Tim Dobbyn)
 
 
-- 
Nel Giugno 2012 Hama una strage di circa
100 persone tra cui 49 bambini va in prima pagina.
Dopo pochi giorni l'ntero mondo occidentale espelle
gli ambasciatori Siriani, senza aver prove certe.
 
Risulta in seguito che le vittime sono intere famiglie
Allawite, Scite o fedeli al governo.
 
L'intero mondo occidentale si e' sbagliato.
Volutamente... complice?
 
 

 authorities.
 
la Cina scrive il Sillabo, i britt che sono più concreti lo mettono in azione. Chi è peggio?

 Viva il Guardian
 
ï¿œ il Daily Mail dei nostri tempi... :-))