If the country that this article was referring to was the US, do you really think that Barton Gellman would let a scoop go like that? I'm sure the first respon

If the country that this article was referring to was the US, do you really think that Barton Gellman would let a scoop go like that? I'm sure the first response will be something alluding to the US government secretly threatening the author if he revealed this, to which I would preemptively point out that this is the same man who has yet to receive any legal indictment and continues to walk the streets freely after revealing the PRISM program last year.