Stefan Mileschin

Guardian journalists could be identified as terrorists and locked up to save the UK government from further embarrassment.

According to Reuters, UK coppers have been ordered by the police to see if there is any way they can lock up the Guardian hacks who write stories which were sourced from Edward Snowden.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger was summoned to give evidence at a parliamentary inquiry and found himself accused by lawmakers of helping terrorists by making top-secret information public and sharing it with other news organisations.

Assistant Commissioner Cressida ****, who heads London's Specialist Operations unit, told MPs that his staff were looking to see whether any offences had been committed. After all in David Cameron’s Britain it can be a crime to report that the government is doing something evil, and if it is not a crime then David can make sure it would be.

GCHQ has moaned that Snowden's data included details of British spies and its disclosure would put lives at risk. However, Rusbridger pointed out that his paper had withheld that information from publication.

MPs told Rusbridger that he had committed an offence under Section 58A of the Terrorism Act which says it is a crime to publish or communicate any information about members of the armed forces or intelligence services.

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