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Which article? As far as I know Greenwald did not write or edit the original article based on Reality Winner's leak. [0] Additionally, Reality Winner was arres
by shkkmo 5y ago
Which article? As far as I know Greenwald did not write or edit the original article based on Reality Winner's leak. [0]
Additionally, Reality Winner was arrested before the article was published. The reason this happened is because the original leaked document was sent to the FBI for confirmation which allowed the FBI to trace the leak before the article was published with the unredacted document.[1]
[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/ https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-de...
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbznza/nsa-leak-suspect-was-ratted-out-by-an-office-printer https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbznza/nsa-leak-suspect-was-...
Edit: I am willing to buy that Greenwald shares responsibility for the lack of rigor in protecting sources by people working for an organization he founded, but if you are going to ascribe such responsibility, you need to be accurate with your claims.