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Analyst pleads guilty to leaking secrets about drone program
- r721 6y ago>the documents were given to Jeremy Scahill, a reporter at The Intercept, who used the documents as part of a series of critical reports on how the military conducted drone strikes on foreign targets. Here's that series: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
- StavrosK 6y agoIs this another case of The Intercept failing abjectly to protect sources? AFAIK that's one of the reasons Laura Poitras quit/was fired.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI can't find anything stating how he was eventually caught, but the six year period between contact and arrest is a decent sign they did what they could to protect the source. Either way, they're hardly the villains here.
- StavrosK 6y agoCertainly not, but they could be better at protecting sources.
- jamie77444 6y agoWhy would you put videos in the background?? I don't want to use my mobile data to load them.