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Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn GreenwaldCitizenfour, new film on spying whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows journalist Greenwald discussing other source
The investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has found a second leaker inside the US intelligence agencies, according to a new documentary about Edward Snowden that premiered in New York on Friday night.
Towards the end of filmmaker Laura Poitrass portrait of Snowden titled Citizenfour, the label he used when he first contacted her Greenwald is seen telling Snowden about a second source.
Snowden, at a meeting with Greenwald in Moscow, expresses surprise at the level of information apparently coming from this new source. Greenwald, fearing he will be overheard, writes the details on scraps of paper.
The specific information relates to the number of the people on the US governments watchlist of people under surveillance as a potential threat or as a suspect. The figure is an astonishingt 1.2 million.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/second-leaker-in-us-intelligence-says-glenn-greenwald
and also interesting:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/edward-snowden-girlfriend-moscow-documentary-poitras
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VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:52 AM - Edit history (1)
He has this distasteful habit of recycling his "breaking news" from time to time...
On the flipside, I've heard the NSA has been searching for a Russian mole within its ranks, and I wondering if there's a possible connection between these two seeming unrelated phenomenon....
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Do you have a link handy? I'd like to read what Greenwald's wrote about this leaker months ago. Thanks.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And it actually goes back earlier than this...For more background, you can view Greenwald twitter account around that date (if you can stomach it)
So Greenwald played dumb, and only confirmed his "big reveal" for his partner's documentary premiere...Like I've always said, Greenwald isn't even trying to hide his ulterior motives anymore...
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I'm heartened to hear there's a second leaker.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)then yes, this is potentially a good development...
But I have my doubts, and the usual suspects will continue to get a free ride...
Their whole circus of self-congratulatory attention whoring has been nothing but a money grabbing farce -- I had such high hopes for them back in the beginning...
Maybe I need to start on square one again -- Can anyone help me understand why it's such a good thing to have all of our classified intel up for auction in the media marketplace while other nations get to keep theirs under wraps??
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Democracy.