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PressTV
December 5, 2013
The editor of a British daily says just one percent of files leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been published.
Responding to the questions posed by the Home Affairs Select Committee of the UK parliament on Tuesday, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said that published just one percent of the 58,000 files it has received from the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor.
The MPs said The Guardian should be prosecuted for breaching the Terrorism Act and damaging the national security, while the editor rejected the claim.
“There are different views about this,” Rusbridger said. “It’s impossible to assess because no one has given me specific evidence.”
He also said the paper had “made very selective judgments” about the leaked files which were published.
“We have published I think 26 documents so far out of the 58,000 we’ve seen,” the editor stated.
“There’s stuff in there about Iraq, Afghanistan, we’re not even going to look at it. That’s not what Edward Snowden was doing when he wanted responsible journalists to go through this material,” Rusbridger told the committee.
“We’ve been working slowly and responsibly through this material, with some of the best journalists in the world, 100 contacts with government and agency sources, we will continue to consult them but we’re not going to be put off by intimidation but nor are we going to behave recklessly,” he said.
