Rusbridger: ‘The next Edward Snowden won’t go to a newspaper, they will dump this stuff on the internet’

MPs today warned Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger that he has breached the Terrorism Act 2000 by transmitting the names of British spies oversees.

Rusbridger was grilled by MPs today about his paper’s revelations based on 58,000 documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

They expressed concern that Rusbridger had “lost control” of the documents by sending them overseas to the US.

Dominic Ponsford

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Dominic Ponsford is the editor in chief of Press Gazette and has more than 20 years experience in journalism. Former Paul Foot Awards finalist and PPA editor of the year nominee 2022.