| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/20, 9:06 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The White House distanced itself from Britain's handling of the leaked NSA documents when representatives said it would be difficult to imagine the US authorities following the example of Whitehall in demanding the
destruction of media hard drives.
As a former lord chancellor said the Metropolitan police had no legal right to detain the partner of a
Guardian journalist at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws, the White House suggested it would be inappropriate for US authorities to enter a media organisation's offices to oversee the destruction of hard
drives.
The White House – which on Monday distanced Washington from the detention of David Miranda – intervened for the second time in 24 hours after the Guardian revealed that senior Whitehall figures had demanded the destruction or
surrender of hard drives containing some of the secret files leaked by
the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest: 'It’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which [demanding the destruction of a media company's hard drives] would be appropriate.' Photograph: Pablo
Martinez Monsivais/AP
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