> Sir Iain Lobban, the head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), was reportedly called with the request in the early hours of 6 June 2013 but rebuffed the suggestion that his agency should act as a censor on behalf of its US partner in electronic spying
So the story here is that someone phoned someone and was told “no”
The Guardian is really digging in and producing the investigative journalism we all need.
> However, the DA-Notice committee, the body which alerts the UK media to the potential damage a story might cause to national security, told the Guardian at the time that nothing it had published had put British lives at risk.
This should be noted. I’ve seen people on here talk about D-Notices as if they’re handed out like confetti to stop any story embarrassing to the Government. I think at one point someone said Johnson had received more fines but there was a D-Notice on it.
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> Sir Iain Lobban, the head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), was reportedly called with the request in the early hours of 6 June 2013 but rebuffed the suggestion that his agency should act as a censor on behalf of its US partner in electronic spying
So the story here is that someone phoned someone and was told “no”
The Guardian is really digging in and producing the investigative journalism we all need.
> However, the DA-Notice committee, the body which alerts the UK media to the potential damage a story might cause to national security, told the Guardian at the time that nothing it had published had put British lives at risk.
This should be noted. I’ve seen people on here talk about D-Notices as if they’re handed out like confetti to stop any story embarrassing to the Government. I think at one point someone said Johnson had received more fines but there was a D-Notice on it.