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So let's talk for a minute about Reality Winner. Winner worked for a contractor that did work with the NSA, and in 2017. she found a classified report that the NSA was covering up suggesting that there had been Russian attempts to hack US voting software and interfere with the US election. Knowing that the Intercept had been big defenders of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning's whistleblowing, she sent a copy of the report to The Intercept. But, while the Intercept had been really concerned about the wellbeing of whistle-blowers who leaked documents suggesting US government wrongdoing in the Obama era, they were less so about potential Russian wrongdoing in the Trump era. They sent the documents to the NSA to get their statements without redacting anything or even doing anything about the printer MIC code that let the NSA identify what printer was used to print it. Winner was arrested three days after the Intercept told the NSA about the leak. Now, she probably would have been arrested anyway...the FBI is generally pretty good at finding leaders. But the actions of the Intercept here were at least negligent. In the last, journalists have gone to jail to protect confidential sources. The Intercept actively went out of their way to help in the investigation. Greenwald claimed no responsibility in the matter.
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Lester Shy posted:Why would he? By all accounts he had no involvement in the Reality Winner story. When they told him about the story, he had told them it was no big deal, and refused to take any sort of involvement in it. Besides, he had founded the thing. While he had stepped back from a big role by that point, he still could have asked that basic levels of security be followed.
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