malcolm_rifkind

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Janine Gibson:

  • Ever since the Miranda incident and GCHQ destroying the Guardian's hard drives, the Guardian's reporting on GCHQ appears to have been chilled. While the Guardian is alleged to have some 50,000 GCHQ documents, outlets like Der Spiegel are the ones breaking the big UK spying stories such as the Belgacom attack. Is the Guardian afraid of investigation or legal action within the UK?

  • Does the Guardian have any agreement whatsoever, formal or informal, with the UK government?

malcolm_rifkind131 karma

I've been waiting for this.

Glenn Greenwald:

  • How do you answer the accusations that Snowden is a Chinese or Russian spy, or that they stole the secrets from him?

  • Snowden initially stated he could wiretap anyone from a federal judge to the President so long as he had a "personal email address" for them. The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, who is responsible for overseeing these programs and has been briefed on them, stated:

"He was lying," Rogers said. "He clearly has over-inflated his position, he has over-inflated his access and he's even over-inflated what the actually technology of the programs would allow one to do. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."

Which of them lied, and how do you know?