New document leak by Edward SnowdentoThe Guardianreveal that the British spy center GCHQ collected email messages from major tidings outlet around the existence , admit the BBC , Le Monde , New York Times and the Washington Post .
The aggregation of the electronic mail was a result of tests conducted by the undercover agent agency , which was look into ways to solicit the fiber - oculus overseas telegram that make up the backbone of the internet . In a ten - hour trial run in November 2008 , agents at the GCHQ obtained over 70,000 e-mail . It ’s not exonerated if individual journalists were single out .
But regardless , the substance were retained at GCHQ and made “ useable to all cleared staff on the means intranet . ” While many were “ unproblematic aggregate - PR emails send to dozens of journalist , ” the Guardian notes that many were also send between writers and editor program discuss account .
Elsewhere in the newly leak documents , a GCHQ security system appraisal reveals that fact-finding journalists were name as a threat to national protection , alongside terrorist and cyber-terrorist . That perhaps explicate , if not justifies , the activity of the agency .
At a time wheneditorial freedom feels to matter more than ever , it ’s a shame to see one of the Earth ’s largest undercover agent agencies keeping an dynamic gaze on the communication of news organisation . But by know , perhaps it should n’t get as too much of a surprise . [ Guardian
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