curious..how did 'the guardian', a british newspaper, get the top secret court order on verizon/nsa?

[spanone]

[JimDandy]

1. Out-of-country reporter is harder to arrest. n/t

Eta: That answered why. Sorry, I don't know the 'how'.

[spanone]

3. perhaps...

[spanone]

4. i see no indication that the media cheerleads Obama.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. Leak, leak, leak.

[quinnox]

6. yep, send them all to gitmo!

Launch a full investigation, how dare they publish this information.

[spanone]

9. i'm glad they published it. i'm curious how they got it?

[quinnox]

10. sounds like a patriotic American "in the know" may have told them

that is my guess. I salute whoever it was!

[BlueCheese]

7. If I had to guess, someone who disagreed with the policy leaked it to Greenwald.

If you wanted to pick someone who would be sure to publicize it, and not defer to the administration, you could hardly do better.

[LiberalEsto]

8. They used the Freedom of Information Act. nt

[Tx4obama]

11. Someone leaked it. And there should be an investigation ASAP! n/t