Cameron wants Guardian’s use of Snowden leaks reviewed

Prime minister David Cameron has accused The Guardian newspaper of putting Britain’s national security at risk by deciding to use information leaked by a former National Security Agency employee.

In his first comments, yesterday, on the growing row over The Guardian’s exposure of intelligence techniques, Cameron also encouraged a Commons select committee to investigate if the newspaper has broken the law.

Cameron said it was plain to see the Edward Snowden affair had been damaging to the UK and that in agreeing to dispose of the relevant information it had obtained, the newspaper effectively accepted its involvement in this: “I think the plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security, and in many ways The Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and Cabinet Secretary [Jeremy Heywood] to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files.