London - The editor of The Guardian says his newspaper has
published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National
Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Alan Rusbridger is being questioned Monday by Parliament’s
home affairs committee as part of a session on counter-terrorism.
The Guardian has published a series of stories based on
Snowden’s leaks disclosing the scale of surveillance by spy agencies in the
United States and Britain.
Rusbridger said the leak amounted to about 58,000 files.
Government and intelligence officials have said the leaks
compromised British security and aided terrorists.
Rusbridger says The Guardian had “made very selective
judgments” about what to publish and had not revealed any intelligence
staffers’ names. He said: “We have published no names and we have lost control
of no names.”
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