Powerful group of MPs set to investigate Guardian's involvement in Snowden leaks

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/16/mps-investigate-guardian-edward-snowden-leaks

Keith Vaz, the Labour head of the Commons home affairs committee, said he would look into "elements of the Guardian's involvement in, and publication of, the Snowden leaks" hours after the prime minister suggested a select committee might look at the issue.

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In response, Cameron encouraged investigation of the issues through parliamentary select committees. "The plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security and in many ways the Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and cabinet secretary to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files," he told MPs.

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A Guardian spokesman said: "The prime minister is wrong to say the Guardian destroyed computer files because we agreed our reporting was damaging. We destroyed the computers because the government said it would use the full force of the law to prevent a newspaper from publishing anything about the NSA or GCHQ.

"That is called 'prior restraint' and it is unthinkable in the US, where the New York Times and Washington Post have been widely applauded - along with the Guardian - for reporting on the Snowden files. That reporting has so far led to a Presidential review and three proposed bills before Congress."