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The Washington Post has indefinitely shelved certain NSA stories
- mtmail 12y agoMis-quoted. Marty Baron @PostBaron replied in the thread: "@apblake I didn't say we held back "would-be scoops." I said there was certain information at times that we chose not to publish."
- untog 12y agoA much better source: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/02/8561767/dean-baquet-marty-baron-and-susan-glasser-dish-national-security-repor http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/02/8561767/... And this isn't actually a new thing. One of the criticisms of WikiLeaks is that a lot of the material they released put people in very real danger (agents in the field, informants, etc), and that's something newspapers have been weighing up for a long time. Of course, the trouble with this is that we don't know what the stories are, so we can't judge if they should have been published or not. Another way of saying it is that any speculation we make in this thread is likely to be pretty pointless.
- dredmorbius 12y agoI've submitted that here, though the clickbait title really sucks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009269