Times rejected British demand

that it hand over Snowden data

A British demand that the New York Times hand over data leaked by Edward Snowden was refused by the chief editor of the New York Times, the Guardian is reporting.

Jill Abramson, the Times editor, disclosed that she had rebuffed British officials who approached her with the aim of having the Times yield data shared by the Guardian. Her statement came in a story proclaiming the official relaunch tomorrow of the International Herald Tribune under the name International New York Times.

Though such resistance is commendable, the Times has been slow to mine the trove of NSA data or to aggressively pursue that data, it appears. On the other hand, the Times, along with the Washington Post, has done good work in disclosing some of the secret maneuverings behind the dark government secretly erected under President Obama.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/13/new-york-times-jill-abramson-first-amendment