The NSA failed with a frantic late night phone call to pressure their British spook counterparts to spike publication of Edward Snowden's infamous 2013 leaks, a new book has claimed.Sir Iain Lobban, the head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), received a phone call making the request that would strain relations between the Five Eyes partners in the early hours of June 6, 2013, the report.The British newspaper the Guardian were set to reveal that the NSA and GCHQ had secretly been collecting mass phone and internet communications, including the embarrassing revelation that they had been spying on G20 allies and partners.
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