British Deputy PM, Nick Clegg, gestures during a Radio talk show in London.
The British Deputy Prime Minister has joined a group of UK politicians demanding that police launch an inquiry into whether the Guardian breached the law by publishing secret materials revealed by the U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Nick Clegg told his Call Clegg phone radio show that the Guardian went too far by publishing what he called œtechnical secrets” unveiled by the CIA™s former contractor, describing the disclosed information as of “immense interest” to terrorists and damaging.
His comments came a day after Andrew Parker, MI5 director general, defended the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)™s spying activities in collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and warned that exposing the “reach and limits of the GCHQ’s capabilities was a gift to terrorists”.
Parker also rejected suggestions that the spying activities violated nations™ rights to privacy and hence their human rights as enshrined in the international laws.
However, the deputy prime minister who had first questioned the use of surveillance technology by agencies such as GCHQ and called for a public debate on the issue, was now joining spymasters in covering-up their illegal activities.
“I have got no doubt that there were some parts of what was published which will have passed most readers of the Guardian completely by, because they were very technical, that would have been of immense interest to people who want harm,” Nick Clegg said.
Meanwhile, an MP called on Home Secretary, Theresa May to look into the paper™s revelations to see whether the law had been upheld. She said leaks would give œcomfort to terrorists”.
Andrew Lansley, Leader of the House of Commons, also echoed the MI5 chief™s concerns.
This is while that the Guardian has repeatedly stressed its publications have not undermined or damaged national security by no means.
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