“Alan Rusbridger keeps a memento of the most bizarre thing that’s happened to him during his journalism career. The Guardian editor carries a piece of the smashed MacBook circuit board destroyed at the order of British intelligence agents during their investigation into the newspaper’s reporting on the U.S government’s massive worldwide spying operations. ‘I think it’s a rather sinister reminder of the intersection of states and journalism,’ Rusbridger told Democracy Now on Monday.”
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