Shock, shock, shock! Despite Obama administration demurrals, its officials had known in advance that British intelligence was going to make sure that the Guardian newspapers hard drives with Edward Snowdens NSA files on them were destroyed -- quite literally -- and various intelligence officials in the U.S. were dancing a jig on the subject. Hey, it would never happen here, but there... hallelujah! What a sorry story it all is! Tom The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspapers hard drives containing leaked National Security Agency documents last year, newly declassified documents show. The White House had said it would be nearly unimaginable for the U.S. government to do the same to an American news organization. The Guardian newspaper, responding to threats from the British government in July 2013, destroyed the data roughly a month after it and other media outlets first published details from the top secret documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden... Good news, at least on this front, the current NSA deputy director, Richard Ledgett, said at the end of a short, censored email to then-NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander and others. The subject of that July 19, 2013, email was: Guardian data being destroyed. A paragraph before Ledgetts comment was blacked out by censors, and the NSA declined to answer questions about the documents... In a statement to the AP, the Guardian said it was disappointed to learn that cross-Atlantic conversations were taking place at the very highest levels of government ahead of the bizarre destruction of journalistic material that took place in the Guardians basement last July. Whats perhaps most concerning is that the disclosure of these emails appears to contradict the White Houses comments about these events last year, when they questioned the appropriateness of the U.K. governments intervention, the newspaper said. m.apnews/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=gPbDoF0R`
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:30:00 +0000
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