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UK Police Confirm Nearly Two-Year Probe Into Snowden Leaks

© Praxis FilmsAccording to the report, which was produced in conjunction with the Intercept and is based on 2012 documents leaked by U.S. whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the surveillance dragnet codenamed Levitation has covered allied trading partners such as the U.S., Britain, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Portugal.
According to the report, which was produced in conjunction with the Intercept and is based on 2012 documents leaked by U.S. whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the surveillance dragnet codenamed Levitation has covered allied trading partners such as the U.S., Britain, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. - Sputnik International
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According to the Intercept website, the British police confirmed a two-year probe into Edward Snowden's leaks of secret documents.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The London police officially confirmed an ongoing investigation into NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified intelligence files nearly two years after it was launched, The Intercept analysis website announced Friday.

"The MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] can confirm that it continues to conduct an investigation into the events as described above," spokesman Nigel Shankster said in a written response, dated July 21, to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Snowden handed over some 1.7 million classified intelligence documents to The Intercept founder Glenn Greenwald, as well as the Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill, in June 2013.

In August that year, the MPS’ Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) launched a criminal investigation into the leaked documents following the seizure of files from Greenwald’s partner and assistant David Miranda in London.

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Two separate confirmations of a probe into the British publication’s correspondents, one from a government lawyer and another from then-Scotland Yard assistant commissioner, followed in the wake of Snowden’s disclosures.

The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher said his FOI requests, dating back to January, had so far been denied on the grounds of terrorist threats to national security.

Mark Stephens, media lawyer and partner at the Howard Kennedy firm in London, told The Intercept the UK investigation remained open to "create a degree of uncertainty" among reporters dealing with intelligence documents.

"They are trying to shake down and instill fear into journalists and discourage them from exposing things that have to do with national security," Stephens said.

Snowden’s leaks have unveiled a trove of bulk global data collection and surveillance by UK, US and other intelligence agencies, triggering a massive public outcry.

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