Video - The Guardian destroys the computers with Snowden files

• Video: The Guardian destroys the computers with Snowden files‏

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Revealed: the day Guardian destroyed Snowden hard drives under watchful eye of GCHQ – video

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       On Saturday 20 July 2013, in the basement of the Guardian's office in Kings Cross, London, watched by two GCHQ technicians, Guardian editors destroyed hard drives and memory cards on which encrypted files leaked by Edward Snowden had been stored. This is the first time footage of the event has been released

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• Sheila Fitzsimons, Ken Macfarlane and Mustafa Khalili
• Length: 2min 35sec
• theguardian.com
• Friday 31 January 2014

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