A British newspaper wants to take its aggressive investigations global, but money is running out.
By Ken Auletta
The New Yorker - October 7, 2013
At eight-thirty on the morning of June 21st, Alan Rusbridger, the unflappable editor of the Guardian,
Britain’s liberal daily, was in his office, absorbing a lecture from
Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron.
Accompanying Heywood was Craig Oliver, Cameron’s director of
communications. The deputy editor, Paul Johnson, joined them in
Rusbridger’s office, overlooking the Regent’s Canal, which runs behind
King’s Cross station, in North London. According to Rusbridger, Heywood
told him, in a steely voice, “The Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime
Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Attorney General, and others in
government are extremely concerned about what you’re doing.”
Since June 5th, the Guardian
had been publishing top-secret digital files provided by Edward
Snowden, a former contract employee of the National Security Agency. In a
series of articles, the paper revealed that the N.S.A., in the name of
combatting terrorism, had monitored millions of phone calls and e-mails
as well as the private deliberations of allied governments. It also
revealed, again relying on Snowden’s documents, that, four years
earlier, the Government Communications Headquarters (G.C.H.Q.),
Britain’s counterpart to the N.S.A., had eavesdropped on the
communications of other nations attending the G20 summit, in London.
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