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If they didn't know they wouldn't destroy Guardians' hard disks but would take them with them to check out the data.

• sp332 13y ago
  I thought the Guardian destroyed their own hard drives, to prevent them from being taken?
  • ohwp 13y ago
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-forced-guardian-destroy-copy-snowden-material-222933670.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-forced-guardian-destroy-cop...
    • sp332 13y ago
      That's not what the Guardian says happened. "But once it was obvious that they would be going to law I preferred to destroy our copy rather than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-fil... Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245419