As requests for more information about U.S. surveillance programs persist, Reuters reports on allegations British Prime Minister David Cameron’s top civil servants tried to stop revelations about surveillance programs. The editor of The Guardian, the paper that broke the revelations, said he was approached by “a very senior official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister” following the articles’ publication. The UK government has said the leaks are a “grave threat to national security,” the report states. EU Observer reports on support from EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding for Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland’s request that the UK explain its recent actions regarding the alleged detention of a reporter for The Guardian “and the forced destruction of the paper’s hard drives containing Snowden's leaked documents,” the report states. Meanwhile, a German official is insisting “global data scans by U.S. and British secret services did not breach German law designed to protect the privacy of citizens.”
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