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> I would like to know how Snowden was connected to the people he eventually gave that information to Snowden selected Greenwald and Poitras and reached out to
by gherkin0 11y ago
> I would like to know how Snowden was connected to the people he eventually gave that information to
Snowden selected Greenwald and Poitras and reached out to them via email:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Contact_with_Edward_Snowden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Contact_with_E...
- 2close4comfort 11y agoDo you think these were his 1st choices?
- gherkin0 11y agoI have no idea, but the question was about "how he was connected" to the people he released the info to. The answer was: he wasn't until he made contact himself. He must've made a list of journalists he knew of who he thought would be sympathetic to the message he wanted to send. Maybe Greenwald/Poitras weren't at the top of the list, but some quick Googling doesn't reveal anything about anyone else he may have tried to contact before them.