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New revelations find UK PM pressuring press

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It has been revealed that the UK government was involved at the highest level in pressuring the Guardian newspaper over its revelations about cyber-snooping by intelligence agencies. The latest revelations follow protests about the detention of David Miranda, the partner of one of the journalists involved in publishing former security agent Edward Snowden's leaks. Now it has emerged that the Prime Minister David Cameron told the UK's most senior civil servant to demand the newspaper hand over the leaked documents. Al Jazeera's Harry Smith reports.