Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146p7583485.html

On 7/16/13 11:18 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:

What I don't understand is why Snowden went public using his real identity. Why not just be the "Deep Throat" of the intelligence community? Surely he could have divulged just enough to whet the appetite of the some select journalists without being the only one to have access to the information, thus giving himself deniability.

Gary -

I too have contemplated this. 

My answer is complicated:

1. We can't know
2. He *wanted* the noteriety (Glen's perspective?)
3. His "honor" required he not maintain deniability (My perspective?)
4. Other stuff

- Steve

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