Der Spiegel also cooperated with the US: With a team of more than 50 reporters and researchers, SPIEGEL has viewed, analyzed and vetted the mass of documents.

Der Spiegel also cooperated with the US: With a team of more than 50 reporters and researchers, SPIEGEL has viewed, analyzed and vetted the mass of documents. In most cases, the magazine has sought to protect the identities of the Americans' informants, unless the person who served as the informant was senior enough to be politically relevant. In some cases, the US government expressed security concerns and SPIEGEL accepted a number of such objections. In other cases, however, SPIEGEL felt the public interest in reporting the news was greater than the threat to security. Throughout our research, SPIEGEL reporters and editors weighed the public interest against the justified interest of countries in security and confidentiality. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,731580,00.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,731580,00.h...