Yea it's a shame that Snowden risked so much just so that a newspaper could rewrite the same story 50 times. We could use more leaks and less grandstanding and posturing.
It's completely not the same story. NYT's "unnamed government official" claims much more than any other story explicitly claimed before. Have you tried to comprehend and compare? Guardian was able to show that UK services collect everything it goes through their nodes, nobody up to 8.8.2013 was able to say so about US, especially not that all the data are automatically searched through, including those of US citizens, theoretically protected by the Constitution.
