It is often said of perceived conspiracies that they are either evil or stupid but here it is impossible to separate the two. The complicity in persecuting a whistle blower who has exposed the tyrannical surveillance of the sinister US National Security Agency in partnership with the insidiously ubiquitous user fiendly corporations Google, Facebook and Apple is clear malfeasance of the highest order in a so-called free society.
But the pantomime which took place in the basement of The Guardian's offices on 20th July 2013 surely exposes the UK government and its agents as the most inept fools imaginable. To quote The Guardian:
A senior editor and a Guardian computer expert used angle grinders and other tools to pulverise the hard drives and memory chips on which the encrypted files had been stored.
As they worked they were watched by technicians from Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) who took notes and photographs, but who left empty-handed.
The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, had earlier informed government officials that other copies of the files existed outside the country and that the Guardian was neither the sole recipient nor steward of the files leaked by Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. But the government insisted that the material be either destroyed or surrendered.
Even the most inexperienced amateur in the field of espionage must have realised that it was very likely that copies may have been made - and given that the drives being destroyed had been components in computer equipment at The Guardian; i.e. they were not the vehicles by which the data was delivered, it must have been obvious that they were not, by any reasonable deduction, original. Mr Rusbridger even made it quite explicitly clear that other copies existed stating that there were known to be copies in Brazil and America (it would be surprising if there were not dozens of copies secreted around the globe). But the government agents had their theatre to perform and supervised as the two employees of The Guardian destroyed the computer drives like a pair of Mafia goons tripping on power.
The butter cream came today with the revelation that Liberal Democrat (yes, Liberal Democrat) leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg had said that he supported the government action. Most people are aware that David Cameron is just a posh thug who is doing the bidding of the corporate elite and has instigated a holocaust on the underclasses to protect their obscene capital. Nick Clegg is merely a timid little boy who has been allowed o wear a prefect's badge who, having had his first taste of railway gravy, is too cowardly to contradict his seniors except with their say so.
Guardian told to destroy NSA files for national security, says Clegg
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