On 09/05/13 10:31 -0500, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
On 09/05/13 10:02 -0400, John Young wrote:
Coda: Free the Snowden docs, end censoring, peddling and lying about them like spies. That's you I'm talking about WikiLeaks, Guardian, Der Spiegel, Washington Post, O Globo, New York Times, ProPublica, end your secretive commercial spy aiding.
I don't get the idea that releasing the Snowden docs in bulk and unfiltered is entirely up to the media outlets listed. My guess is Snowden himself is doing much of the metering. The slow, but consistent, rate of blockbuster headlines is resulting in a punctuated evolutionary change in the public's view of what the NSA is doing.
The journalists (like Barton Gellman) working on the releases have specifically stated that Snowden's not doing this. According to Gellman[0], Snowden passed them the docs with fairly minimal instructions ("select for news and avoid damage"). One could certainly disbelieve Gellman, but there's the assertion nonetheless.
I could believe that he's not redacting information contained within classified documents (which may raise suspicion about his motives). There was an article posted to this list a couple of weeks back that showed, at least in his initial contacts with journalists, that he was being selective in what information he was providing them.