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The Intercept Shuts Down Access To Snowden Trove (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: First Look Media announced Wednesday that it was shutting down access to whistleblower Edward Snowden's massive trove of leaked National Security Agency documents. Over the past several years, The Intercept, which is owned by First Look Media, has maintained a research team to handle the large number of documents provided by Snowden to Intercept journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. But in an email to staff Wednesday evening, First Look CEO Michael Bloom said that as other major news outlets had "ceased reporting on it years ago," The Intercept had decided to "focus on other editorial priorities" after expending five years combing through the archive. "The Intercept is proud of its reporting on the Snowden archive, and we are thankful to Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald for making it available to us," Bloom wrote. He added: "It is our hope that Glenn and Laura are able to find a new partner -- such as an academic institution or research facility -- that will continue to report on and publish the documents in the archive consistent with the public interest." Poitras reprimanded First Look Media for its decision to shut down its archives, and lay off 4 percent of its staff who had maintained them. "This decision and the way it was handled would be a disservice to our source, the risks we've all taken, and most importantly, to the public for whom Edward Snowden blew the whistle," she wrote.
"Late Thursday evening, Greenwald tweeted that both he and Poitras had full copies of the archives, and had been searching for a partner to continue research," reports The Daily Beast.
"Late Thursday evening, Greenwald tweeted that both he and Poitras had full copies of the archives, and had been searching for a partner to continue research," reports The Daily Beast.
Russia is not under much pressure to kick him out.
America is really not that interested in putting him on trial. A trial would be an embarrassing spectacle, and a lot of official misconduct and incompetence would be publicized.
The status quo is better for everyone.
The same left-wingers who see a Russian conspiracy behind every pro-Trump vote in 2016 incredulously do not consider the possibility that Snowden might actually be a Russian asset who was recruited to cause absolute mayhem.
That's because we actually have evidence that Russia was trying to influence the 2016 election. The CIA and FBI have said exactly this. It's also because we have ZERO evidence that Snowden is a Russian asset. You think if the CIA or NSA had the slightest inklink he was recruited by the Ruskies they wouldn't be screaming it at the top of their lungs?
Snowden wound up in Russia because the Obama administration screwed up.
Let's be real. The Intercept and First Look Media didn't do this for The Greater Good. They got publicity and advertising revenue for being gatekeeper of this information and first to break the stories. "major news outlets had ceased reporting on it years ago" means "no longer profitable". So why should they be paying people to dredge through it when they aren't producing juicy bits any more? The two "journalists" whose job was to find stuff in top security documents that were illegally leaked in the hopes of bringing in web traffic shouldn't be the least bit surprised that their "research" positions have come to an end.
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I think the most important bits have been published, even if this is only a tiny fraction of the whole. The main lessons to be learned from it have been communicated. After that the cost/benefit calculation just becomes much smaller. It can live on as a reference base where journalists and historians can look up data which is relevant to current events but which has little apparent value in being published outside of these events. New Look Media simple doesn't want to invest anymore in what is mostly a symbolic openness. Resistance to that assumes that there are hugely important things being covered up.
I'd assume that other intelligence agencies already stole them from the NSA long before Snowden did, and these journalists probably have better opsec on their copies.
Anyway, they should just throw a .torrent of it on The Pirate Bay at this point.
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It's funny how right-wingers can't imagine that someone might actually take their oath to uphold and defend the constitution seriously, and reveal information that is beneficial to the public interest. A vow to protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic, which does involve blind obedience to those currently in power.
It's incredible to assume that Snowden would even have a chance to see the inside of a courtroom. Not when there is an example to be made.
He would have been given a military show trial
A military trial for a civilian American citizen would be totally unconstitutional. There is absolutely no way this would happen.
if not assassinated outright.
Who would give the order? Who would carry it out?
Donald Trump has betrayed multiple subordinates. No one is going to commit felony murder on his behalf only to be thrown under the bus.
No problem, there are plenty of people who will volunteer to do it for free. I would and of course I would be tempted to simply upload it to wikileaks. I mean there is the solution right there, why don't they take it.
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It's funny how right-wingers can't imagine that someone might actually take their oath to uphold and defend the constitution seriously, and reveal information that is beneficial to the public interest. A vow to protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic, which does involve blind obedience to those currently in power.
It's incredible to assume that Snowden would even have a chance to see the inside of a courtroom. Not when there is an example to be made.
It not a right or left wing issue. It is a authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Politics is not a one dimensional slide with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other it is more a n-dimensional space with lots on nuanced positions. trying to over simplify that into a binary lib v con paradigm is what makes American politics the devise social hellscape we have had for the last decade and a half.
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Hey derpstick, in WWII, when American Citizens were found among the German ranks... they got shot at just like the other Germans.
And there were no Constitutional implications at all.
Same here. If you go to a war zone to hide from the US Government, it is entirely lawful to blow you up there instead of capturing you and dragging you home.
And his family litigated the matter in the US, and the Courts upheld his status as a combatant. So it is just incredibly derptastic to be still bleeting about it. You are not the Law, nor are you the Court, nor is the Constitution made up of whatever you say.
Did you think it was unconstitutional for the Union soldiers during the Civil War to fire their weapons? Or did you think they were supposed to file legal charges instead. "Hold on there, charging soldier, stop right there, I'm gonna find a lawyer and get permission to shoot if you're not careful!" That's not how war works. The Constitution doesn't ban war. In fact, there seems to be some evidence that the Founders weren't even against war!