That argument could be made about a site like pastebin that just hosts user content. But they went to a lot of trouble to present journalistic integrity over th

That argument could be made about a site like pastebin that just hosts user content. But they went to a lot of trouble to present journalistic integrity over the Snowden affair. You can't have it both ways. If they were not trying to be "good" there would not be any justification to publish the data at all.