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UK: GCHQ: Alan Rusbridger and the home affairs select committee: the key exchanges

05 December 2012

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"The Guardian's editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, argued before the home affairs select committee that there was a public interest in revealing details of secret surveillance programmes based on files leaked by Edward Snowden, and said newspapers had played a vital role in exposing the scale and scope of British and American intelligence agency spying activities."

See the full article: Alan Rusbridger and the home affairs select committee: the key exchanges - Guardian's editor-in-chief tells MPs that the publication of NSA files leaked by Edward Snowden was in the public interest (Guardian, link).

And see: MPs ask MI5 boss to justify claim that NSA leaks endangered national security - Keith Vaz, chairman of home affairs select committee, says spy chief Andrew Parker has been summoned to give evidence (Guardian, link)

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