As Media Lens wrote in 2015:

As Media Lens wrote in 2015:

APCO's senior director is Tom Harper, a former Sunday Times journalist.

In 2015, Harper was the lead reporter of a front-page story alleging that Russia and China had 'cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries.'

The story was nonsense: a series of assertions from faceless government and security sources, backed by zero evidence and outright falsehoods.

When Harper was asked about his story by CNN, he floundered in a tragicomic, four-minute interview that should be shown to journalism students from now until the end of eternity.

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