Claim

Claim 320

Rusbridger described Guardian staff destroying hard drives with power drills while intelligence officials watched.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Rusbridger described Guardian staff destroying hard drives with power drills while intelligence officials watched.
Field: action
Value: Rusbridger describes the hard-drive destruction
About: incident 2013-uk-miranda-detention-guardian-hard-drives
Source: 'Guardian' Destroyed Hard Drives With Snowden Documents archived copy
Publisher: NPR
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2013-08-20

Quotation from the source

it was certainly one of the most bizarre experiences in my journalistic career to have editorial people in a basement with power drills, being looked on by men from spying agencies involved in smashing up computers.