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Full text of the original Sunday Times article (primary source is paywalled): https://archive.is/BkuMM https://archive.is/BkuMM http://pastebin.com/UJpJxDnj http://pastebin.com/UJpJxDnj Statements from the article that seem questionable: > Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden Both? Seems a little strange that they would independently do this simultaneously, unless they had been working together on it (though this is plausible). > Moscow gained access to more than 1m classified files held by the former American security contractor The only reason Snowden is in Russia is because the US state department cancelled his passport on his route to Ecuador. Russia was not his intended destination, but his presence there has been extremely helpful for his opponents to paint him as being in collaboration with them. And if it is indeed true that they have gained access to the info (either through his co-operation or otherwise), then perhaps cancelling his passport while in transit and forcing him into exile there wasn't such a great idea. > One senior Home Office official accused Snowden of having “blood on his hands”, although Downing Street said there was “no evidence of anyone being harmed”. So which is it? > David Cameron’s aides confirmed the material was now in the hands of spy chiefs in Moscow and Beijing Where's the evidence? The only sources of the article are from the US/British government, who have given only unsubstantiated claims. > people are being pulled back and operations where people are exposed are having to be shut down Perhaps this might be due to the US Office of Personnel management (OPM) being unable to keep the data of millions of federal employees protected? The Chinese hack got this information directly from the agency that held it: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/12/office-of-personnel-management-hack-china/71146452/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/12/office-of-pers... > David Miranda, the boyfriend of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, was seized at Heathrow in 2013 in possession of 58,000 “highly classified” intelligence documents after visiting Snowden in Moscow. They can't even get basic facts straight. He had been in Berlin visiting Laura Poitras, not in Moscow visiting Snowden: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...