The same thing happened outside the Guardian's Washington bureau, four blocks from the White House, and the Brooklyn home of US editor-in-chief Janine Gibson. They dug up the pavement and replaced it. Within hours of publication of the first one – which revealed that the NSA was mass-scooping data from the US telecoms company Verizon – diggers arrived outside the Guardian's loft office in Broadway.
There were curious moments in New York, too, from where many Snowden stories were reported. These interactions culminated with the Guardian, under threat of government injunction, smashing up its laptops in an underground carpark as two boffins from GCHQ watched. "I wonder where our guys are?" he said, gesturing vaguely to the flats opposite. And, in passing, suggested the newspaper was now itself under secret observation. Heywood demanded the return of Snowden's files. David Cameron sent his cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood to visit the Guardian. Discarded sandwich packets and dirty coffee cups piled up.ĭowning Street's response to Snowden's leak was initially slow – then strident.
None of the laptops were connected to the internet or any other network. Only a few trusted reporters were allowed in. intelligence agencies’ secret surveillance programs.I was part of a small team that examined Snowden's documents in a secure fourth-floor room overlooking Regent's Canal. Snowden has lived in Russia since he revealed details of U.S. Representatives for the book’s publisher, Macmillan Publishers, and its unit Henry Holt & Co, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. “This book contains no government secrets that have not been previously published by respected news organizations,” he said in a statement, adding that Snowden would have submitted it for review if he thought the government would review it in good faith. It is hard to think of a greater stamp of authenticity than the US government filing a lawsuit claiming your book is so truthful that it was literally against the law to write.- Edward Snowden September 17, 2019īen Wizner, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represents Snowden, said the lawsuit was without merit.
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