Re: How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets - NYTimes.com
Posted by
Steve Smith on
Aug 14, 2013; 3:16am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-Laura-Poitras-Helped-Snowden-Spill-His-Secrets-NYTimes-com-tp7583618p7583622.html
Is it a coincidence that I'm watching
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" just as I'm reading this (including
Greenwald living in Brazil) description of something NEARLY as
absurd as the movie!
The story on Poitras seemed a little like a "puff" piece, as much
as one can "puff" a story/situation like this.
While I still generally support Obama, it is absurd to claim that
Snowden's disclosures were not responsible for a (hopefully
serious) introspection by the administration on the current state
of our SigInt programs regarding US Citizens (on US soil) (and
maybe all of our Intell?). Obama's claim "we were already looking
into this" reminds me sadly of my own "I wuz Gonna!" as a child
when my mother had to remind me to do one of my chores.... it just
comes up lame. If you was Gonna (Barack) then why didn'tcha
already?
I found the story about the
encryption negotiation between her and Snowden to be
fascinating. It's also interesting how independent they
(Poitras and Greenwald) seem to be from the Guardian. It's hard
to imagine most journalists would have the technological judo to
make it work before being found out and slapped down. But
that's the our world now. It sure sounds like she's got nerves
of steel.. I find the argument "we can document this" to be a
perfectly acceptable reason for a journalist to take a position
-- once truth is established, ask the next question..
On 8/13/13 3:05 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Here's an important story coming out next Sunday
in the NYTimes. It touches on the evolving form(s) of
journalism and journalist security, both physical and digital.
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