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From a government standpoint it's better to control the release of this kind of information rather than a Snowden type disclosure. Reminds me of how the Obama a
by barbacoa 5y ago
From a government standpoint it's better to control the release of this kind of information rather than a Snowden type disclosure. Reminds me of how the Obama administration CIA disclosed they had secret assassination kill-lists which included American citizens. This was done through a Friday release of a NYT page 6 article that casually mentioned this in a single sentence buried in text.
- IAmGraydon 5y agoIt wasn’t NYT and it wasn’t a single sentence. It was a 3 part series by the Washington Post.
- barbacoa 5y agoI know because I read that single sentence on page 6 of a NYT article. This must have been 2010, back when people bought printed newspapers. I followed civil liberties pretty close back then and it was the first I heard it discussed. That's part of the plan. Those WaPo articles carry a different tone if it's breaking news vs following up on a already broken story.