Yeah, and if it were Nelson faxing the planning of Trafalgar to Bonaparte, the Pope would be rubbing his hands. That analogy is faker than a Rolex bought in Camden.
many of the people identified risk being killed.
By whom, the ones more likely to monitor any US communication - aka their allied US spies? Or are you saying Fedex is an eeeevil corp full of irreducible Soviet moles and incorruptible Islamist sleeper-cells?
There’s no reason why newspapers should be any more exempt from data protection law than anyone other company.
Except there is, it’s called freedom of the press as enshrined in the US Constitution and a few other constitutional documents around Europe. Something which unfortunately never really existed in the UK; the best we got is a sort of hands-off policy by subsequent Monarchs. I’m sure you know this, and the thought probably gets you a raging authoritarian boner the size of Queen Elizabeth’s Tower.
