Britain's response to the NSA story? Back off and shut up | Simon Jenkins

Snowden's revelations are causing outrage in the US. In the UK, Hague deploys a police-state defence and the media is silenced

On Monday the Guardian carried a story that British intelligence had spied on delegates at two G20 summits, those chaired by Gordon Brown in 2009. Laptops and mobile phones had been hacked, and internet cafes installed and bugged. With many of the same heads of government gathering for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the story was, to put it mildly,...