> Serious question, why are the Snowden leaks so revered and not the reporting of James Risen several years earlier? Because, historically, the US Press is com

> Serious question, why are the Snowden leaks so revered and not the reporting of James Risen several years earlier? Because, historically, the US Press is compulsively deferential to the NatSec state. It's the same reason the press twistered themselves to report the Mark Klein revelations as a warrantless wiretapping issue - instead of the NSA live cloning internet backbone traffic in a room custom built by AT&T for the purpose. ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein That the US press was loudly silent over US Gov's revenge campaign against - not only James Rosen but also James Risen and other journalists who outed NatSec wrongdoing - is for me one of US Journalism's most defining (non)actions. ref: US Gov's persecution of James Risen https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/james-risen-anonymous-source-government-battle https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/james-risen-anonymou... ref: US Gov's persecution of James Rosen https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/05/james-rosen-named-a-co-conspirator-why-is-barack-obamas-justice-department-going-after-a-national-security-reporter.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/05/james-rosen-name...