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Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by anigbrowl on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:31PM (#5973385)
I thought the reason that we had seen only a few of the PRISM slides was because Snowden was being cautious rather than cavalier. It strikes me that this way the media can be blamed for any negative public opinions about Snowden on the basis that they gave out too much or too little information.

On a some-what-related note, I wonder if this is going to be a rerun of the Wikileaks state department cables, where a Guardian reporter 'unknowingly' gave away the password to the encrypted 'insurance' cache. I still wonder whether that whole thing wasn't track 2 diplomacy masquerading as espionage theater.

Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by sneak on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:09PM (#5973905)
Snowden asked The Guardian to run the whole deck, IIRC. They consulted with people (US Govt, maybe?) and released just 4 slides.

Later, WaPo ran some more slides, showing more codenames and data collection info (such as NUCLEON's phone call content collection). This, too, has a redaction box on it which was confirmed as _redacted by the paper_.

These journalists are not trying to jam their dick in the beehive - they're just doing their job of running this story. They're not in the business of publishing classified data for the sake of publishing classified data.

The goal here is to give you the relevant data and a bit of context/narrative supported by appropriate facts, not just to pastebin a bunch of files up on the web— though in the case of these Snowden leaks, the net effect would be very close to the same.

Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by anigbrowl on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:26PM (#5974793)
Well according to Assange (and choosing Russia Today as a source that's been sympathetic to him), there's more stuff coming from the Snowden channel, even though it's out of Snowden's hands.

http://rt.com/news/assange-snowden-revelations-continue-459/

and also (vie Reuters) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/01/snowden-rus...

So it appears that Greenwald and Snowden are saying two different things.