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Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by tptacek on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:08PM (#5876892)
No. Rather than issue a direct correction to their initial story which so falsely represented the facts on the ground that all of the US's largest internet companies simultaneously issued categorical denials, the Guardian ran another article that redefined the term "direct access", knowing (as they had to have) that their own original interpretation of the term, in black and white in Greenwald's original reporting, had been repeated as fact by numerous major media outlets.
Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by daywalker on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:57PM (#5877167)
If the tech companies have been slandered unfairly, why don't they sue the Guardian?
Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by marshray on Thursday June 13, 2013 @06:58PM (#5877180)
Because The Guardian has 19,998 more documents that they don't know the contents of.
Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by discostrings on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:16PM (#5877275)
If they have have acted properly, why should that stop them?

It's hard to lie effectively when you don't know how much of the truth is known.

Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by marshray on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:18PM (#5877284)
Because nobody, probably not even at the NSA, is confident that they actually know the full extent of what's going on.
Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by discostrings on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:21PM (#5877298)
So true. That's one of the most dangerous aspects of conducting this type of thing in the dark.
Re:The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to se... by loumf on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:13PM (#5882201)
They think the clear denial and resulting walk-backs are enough.