Reporter Who Wrote Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Admits He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him

[Aerows]

60. I disagree that they wouldn't fall on their swords

for a hack like that - Five eyes are so completely intertwined with one another and information sharing, that it is a natural inclination to protect each other (because heaven only knows what the hackers learned about us!) in that situation.

You had GCHQ collecting information on Americans and the NSA collecting information on British citizens and they were exchanging that information. When you are that interlinked, when one gets in a mess, you tend to circle the wagons.

Then there is this:

“Last week, David Anderson’s thoughtful report called for urgent reform of snooping laws. That would not have been possible without Snowden’s revelations. Days later, an ‘unnamed Home Office source’ is accusing him of having blood on his hands. The timing of this exclusive story from the securocrats seems extremely convenient.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/14/russia-and-china-broke-into-snowden-files-to-identify-british-and-us-spies

You have both groups under pressure to halt or significantly curb their activities. It's not really a surprise that they are trotting out the Snowden "sins" to counter that.