I'd hope this should imply that journalists will become more aware of the benefits of using encryption and replicating documents (even centralized/cloud service

I'd hope this should imply that journalists will become more aware of the benefits of using encryption and replicating documents (even centralized/cloud services would be OK, as long as the content is encrypted and they can't all be seized). The big question for me is - why send such a strong signal to journalists? What is the big secret? * That the fight on terrorism is ineffective because they have long been using techniques which evade all this surveillance * That terrorism is no longer genuinely a significant threat thanks to human and signals intelligence, and thus the entire war is essentially a huge budget grab (and employment industry, and control/power mechanism) * Simply that shutting down independent journalism is a goal Or some combination of the above? I never imply wide conspiracies as I think they're genuinely too difficult to co-ordinate, but people/organizations do independently/implicitly collude by seeing each other's behaviours and reading the zeitgeist.