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Just like how The Intercept keeps burning its sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept#Reality_Winner_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_I
by sbierwagen 5y ago
Just like how The Intercept keeps burning its sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept#Reality_Winner_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept#Reality_Winner_c... you pretty much have to assume any time you talk to a reporter you're like one step removed from talking to a cop. You cannot assume any security competence at all. Putting the source's full first and last name on the recording and then sending it to a third party, sheesh.
- eesmith 5y agoWhat other sources have they burned? That Wikipedia page only lists Winner.
- profunctor 5y agoIt also lists two other whistle blowers who blame that journalist.
- eesmith 5y agoThis part? > NSA whistleblower John Kiriakou and Guantanamo Bay detention camp whistleblower Joseph Hickman have both accused the same reporter accused of revealing Winner's identity, Matthew Cole, of playing a role in their exposure, which, in Kiriakou's case, led to his imprisonment. I don't see where Kiriakou and Hickman were sources to The Intercept. The [35] links to https://www.peterbcollins.com/2017/06/30/in-depth-interview-whistleblowers-joe-hickman-and-john-kiriakou-on-abu-zubaydeh-torture-and-a-dangerous-reporter/ https://www.peterbcollins.com/2017/06/30/in-depth-interview-... which says: > In the final 5 minutes of the interview, both men share their stories of being burned by "journalist" Matthew Cole, whose work at ABC compromised Hickman and sent Kiriakou to prison. Cole was involved in the recent episode at The Intercept, where NSA leaker Reality Winner was apprehended after Cole shared her leaked document in an effort to verify it. The [36] links to https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4148070/ex-cia-whistleblower-blasts-reporters-for-not-protecting-alleged-nsa-leaker-reality-winner-1.4148075 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-e... with (emphasis mine): > He later spent two years in prison for disclosing the identity of a fellow CIA officer to then-freelance journalist Matthew Cole, one of four authors of Monday's Intercept report. While Cole did not publish the name, his email exchange with Kiriakou was used as evidence against him. So while I see Cole burning several sources, I only see The Intercept burning one.
- octodog 5y agoDistinction without a difference. "The Intercept employs a journalist who has burnt 3 sources".
- eesmith 5y agosbierwagen wrote "Just like how The Intercept keeps burning its sources". I wanted to know more about the other sources they burned, because I hadn't heard of additional cases and wondered why they didn't learn from their experience.
- barkingcat 5y agoisn't this always the case? not every reporter works for the nyt and even then it's super leaky. if you talk to a reporter, 100% assumption your full name/full transcript/full video recording is going to be out there. "off the record" never meant anything.
- skybrian 5y agoThat's assuming there is a recording. If you meet in person somewhere and agree that they're only allowed to take notes, maybe there wouldn't be one? Or alternately, answer questions in writing and be careful what you say.
- barkingcat 5y agoMany reporters use personal recording and pinhole cameras, etc. regardless of what they agree to. tools of the trade.
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- pessimizer 5y agoA reporter is just some person, and may be a government informant, a corporate spy, or in the case of John Connolly a literal spy for the Church of Scientology.