UK PM was behind attempt to halt Snowden reports
22 Aug 2013 11:42 PM GMT
British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered his top civil servant to try to stop revelations flowing from the Guardian newspaper about US and British surveillance programmes, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. News that cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood had contacted the Guardian drags Cameron into a storm over Britain's response to media coverage of secrets leaked by fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said on Tuesday that he had been approached by ‘a very senior official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister’ after his paper had published a series of exposes based on the Snowden material.
The sources named the official as Heywood, who is Cameron's most senior policy adviser.
‘The prime minister asked the cabinet secretary to deal with this matter, that's true,’ a source told Reuters.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said on Tuesday that he had been approached by ‘a very senior official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister’ after his paper had published a series of exposes based on the Snowden material.
The sources named the official as Heywood, who is Cameron's most senior policy adviser.
‘The prime minister asked the cabinet secretary to deal with this matter, that's true,’ a source told Reuters.
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