Dominic Cummings this afternoon alleged that the Chinese state from 2020 accessed a data exchange widely used in Whitehall to transfer information, including top secret data with the “strap” designation. This was allegedly covered-up…
He said:
“What I’m saying is that some Strap stuff was compromised and vast amounts of data classified as extremely secret and extremely dangerous for any foreign entity to control was compromised. Material from intelligence services. Material from the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. Things the government has to keep secret. If they’re not secret, then there are very, very serious implications for it.”
Cummings added he would give more information if there was an MP-led inquiry. He said the situation is significantly worse than the publicly available reporting suggests: “The idea that it is somehow a difficult semantic question of whether to define them as a threat, or how much of a threat, is absolutely puerile nonsense. And everybody in the heart of Whitehall knows this.” The British state’s ming vase strategy on China is exploding…
