Edward Snowden files reveal GCHQ scooped up journalist e-mails – The Washington Post

British spy agency scoops up journalists’ e-mails

Guardian revelations that GCHQ kept e-mails of journalists renews debate in Britain over surveillance powers.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/edward-snowden-files-reveal-gchq-scooped-up-journalist-e-mails/2015/01/19/40b64644-028a-45a6-b025-fd0d4cf83a2c_story.html?wprss=rss_world

E-mails from the Guardian, The Washington Post, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, Le Monde, the BBC and the Sun were among 70,000 harvested in November 2008 — collected in less than 10 minutes — as part of a GCHQ test exercise