I don't think this would have been nearly as much of an issue if the reporters had been up front about how much had been given to them. Pick a metric - documen

I don't think this would have been nearly as much of an issue if the reporters had been up front about how much had been given to them. Pick a metric - documents/files/pages/slides/whatever, and stick to it. As it played out, it went from Snowden saying "I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed" in his interview last June, to Greenwald saying the total count was 9-10k in July, then 15-20k in August, then the NY Times saying that the Guardian gave them 50k Snowden docs in September [1]. I'm curious why they won't give a definitive number - I'm assuming that they're trying to avoid accusations that he just scraped as much as he could and took it out of the country without properly evaluating the documents. [1] http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/edward-snowdens-incredibly-mutating-document-trove/ http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/edward-snowdens-inc...