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Both Manning and Snowden said they were motivated by a desire to reveal what they viewed as transgressions by the United States. “This time it doesn’t look ideological,” Alperovitch said.

The first appearance of some of the documents seems to have taken place on gaming platforms, perhaps to settle an online argument over the status of the fight in Ukraine.

“Think about that,” Alperovitch said. “An internet fight that ends up in a massive intelligence disaster.”

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