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In reply to the discussion: So Its Now Pretty Obvious Snowden Gave the Names of US and British Agents to China and Russia [View all]arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Some of the key points of the statement, which intelligence analyst Joshua Foust called "extraordinary":
Robbins said that the case material included 58,000 documents that were "highly classified UK intelligence documents."
Among the documents was a piece of paper with the decryption password.
Police decrypted one file on Miranda's hard drive with the password.
The material contains "personal information that would allow British intelligence staff to be identified," including overseas.
Because of the size and scope of the material gathered, the British government believes that Edward Snowden "indiscriminately appropriated material in bulk."
In what could be a particularly troubling development, the UK government has "had" to assume that Snowden's data is in the hands of foreign governments to which he has traveled: Hong Kong and Russia. (Greenwald told Business Insider last week that it was "highly unlikely" that had happened, however.)
Robbins argued that it is "impossible" for Greenwald or any other journalist to determine which information could damage national security.
http://www.businessinsider.com/david-miranda-glenn-greenwald-documents-national-security-2013-8