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http://gawker.com/what-happened-to-glenn-greenwalds-big-scoop-1598529606
[font size=5]What Happened to Glenn Greenwald's Big Scoop? [/font]
Adam Weinstein
Something big is brewing in NSA Revelation Landa scoop from columnist and reporter Glenn Greenwald that was supposed to be published at midnight last night. But now Glenn Greenwald and fellow Intercept reporter Murtaza Hussein have delayed their story, pending new government information, and the internet is freaking out. ....
That hint sent the webs atwitter, especially since the NSA-centric Intercepta fledgling media startup that's published in fits and startshasn't put out a new story since June 18.
Tinfoil hattersboth pro- and anti-Greenwaldlet loose.
But then, something strange happened: Greenwald put the brakes on the story, ostensibly because some new reporting was necessary: ....
But it's unclear whether that's the story that was supposed to come last night, and it's also unclear what government claims might have required further investigation. Those claims may have been made directly to the Intercept, since the only government response to Snowden's activities in recent days have been a deflection of new surveillance details released by the Washington Post and rumors about Snowden's cloak-and-dagger activities before hooking up with Greenwald and fellow journalist Laura Poitras in Hong Kong last year. ....
Can't wait till the Infowars folks get hold ofoh, never mind.
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I laughed, though--I admit it.
JI7
(90,099 posts)so in month or so we will start getting the "Greenwald about to reveal names" "greenwald says revelation of names is immnent".
"big news to be released soon".
then we will get nothing and are suppsoed to forget.
and repeat the above again about how we are about to get the big news.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,412 posts)Distant Quasar
(142 posts)If he holds off because new information is supposedly emerging, it shows he's up to no good.
Seriously, this is a total non-story, only worthy of Gawker.