Cameron attempted to halt Snowden reports

[tovaris]

Britain's National Security Adviser was involved in talks with the Guardian newspaper to try to get it to hand over spy secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, a source said. Other sources have said that Cameron ordered Jeremy Heywood, Britain's top civil servant, to contact the Guardian to try to stop a flow of information about U.S. and British surveillance programmes. Rights groups have accused the government of an assault on press freedom over a series of incidents. These include the news that the paper had been forced to destroy computer files containing information from Snowden under threat of government legal action.

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[britishboy]

the fact that the information was classified jusfies it, no press freedom would be to order them to not