On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:32 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Greenwald's mercenary greed is why only 97% of Snowden docs have been released.
There is difference between who has held the entire cache in their own hands, versus who has been given [or just access to] select documents. It seems reasonable to presume Greenwald has a copy of the entire cache. But such statement is far from clear as applied to the rest of the names... Poitras, MacAskill, Appelbaum, Schneier, Green, couriers, in custody of outlets, etc. Same for if Snowden himself retained his own copies, whether in person, or stashed in safe places. In games, you cannot accept statements by such parties about who has what or does what as always true, especially by the main actor[s]. Regardless of how true any statements on other topics may be. Before those questions may be answered the world may need to wait for Snowden's own legal status to be resolves.. such as permanent Russian or other citizenship and shield from remote US prosecution, or return to US and resolution of process there. What can be said is that there *appears* to be a very large cache from which rather few docs have been released. Given that most of what has been out is not truly damaging or earth shattering, but merely embarrasing and key confirmatory of suspicions... games of releasing just a few is disapointing, and the pace is falling off. Maybe that is just waiting for US election cycles and various moments now.