[ajross]

We need to pump the brakes on the hyperbole. This isn't Snowden v2.0. This is all mid-tier analysis work, mostly just document production. There are no revelations of clandestine activities, no spies got burned, no new sources were revealed. Quite frankly what's been reported so far is mostly unsurprising. It's a bunch of powerpoint slides and such generated by a huge analyst bureaucracy.

Most likely the guy got access to it because he's an admin on the data store that holds it. It's very difficult to generate mountains of documents like this without granting some kind of IT staff the ability to read them.

Now, given the application, surely there needs to have been some kind of backstop against deliberate espionage and treachery. And it was probably poorly designed. But nothing here seems "surprising" to me, really.

[0zemp1c]

> Quite frankly what's been reported so far is mostly unsurprising

exactly, very little revealed seemed to be beyond what can be inferred from existing sources...

[gradys]

We don’t know if any spies are going to get burned or if any methods will be discovered and shut down. There was intelligence on specific things individual foreign leaders said in private. Combined with other info, that could definitely lead to spies getting killed. This is often the way spies are discovered.