Investigative
journalists classified as a threat!
“The
analysis of documents released by American whistleblower Edward
Snowden reveals that emails from the state-run BBC, Reuters, the
Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the
Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the agency’s
intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence
agency.”
“The
journalists’ communications were among 70,000 emails harvested in
the space of less than 10 minutes on one day in November 2008 by one
of GCHQ’s numerous taps on the fiber-optic cables that make up the
backbone of the Internet, the Guardian reported Monday.”
“The
communications, which were sometimes simple mass-PR emails sent to
dozens of journalists but also included correspondence between
reporters and editors discussing stories, were retained by GCHQ and
were available to all cleared staff on the agency intranet. There is
nothing to indicate whether or not the journalists were intentionally
targeted.”
“New
evidence from other UK intelligence documents revealed by Snowden
also shows that a GCHQ information security assessment listed
'investigative journalists' as a threat in a hierarchy alongside
terrorists or hackers.”
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