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Bob Woodward: Edward Snowden Should Have Come To Me Instead
Edward Snowden may have helped blow the lid on the NSA's secret surveillance programs, but Bob Woodward has one complaint: that Snowden should have come to him with the leaks.
"I wish [Snowden] had come to me instead of others, particularly The Guardian, Woodward told King in an interview that airs Thursday on Hulu. "I would have said to him lets not reveal who you are. Lets make you a protected source and give me time with this data and lets sort it out and present it in a coherent way.'"
Woodward didn't say why he felt so "particular" about the Guardian's having obtained the Snowden documents, or how he would but he might have had a hard time convincing the whistleblower to be his new Deep Throat. Snowden has said in the past that he always intended to reveal himself as the source of the leaks.
Ironically, Woodward's newspaper, the Washington Post, has been a chief recipient of Snowden's leaks but his colleague Barton Gellman has led the paper's coverage, leaving Woodward completely on the sidelines.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/bob-woodward-edward-snowden-guardian_n_4311354.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
by digby
He does have a reputation for protecting his sources --- but then his sources are all very high level government officials who are leaking to him to advance an agenda. It's unsurprising that someone in Snowden's position might not think Bob Woodward (or one of the dozens of other journalists who specialize in publishing "authorized leaks" would be the best person to approach.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/qotd-bob-woodward.html
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Now, Carl Bernstein might have some credibility to make such an offer.
Woodward? No.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)creepy guy. Ick.
-p
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And despite what is commonly believed, Snowden/Greenwald do *not* have sole ownership of the story nor do they have a monopoly on all the available NSA information...
If Woodward is so inclined, he could cultivate some inside sources, do his own research, and start writing his own stories -- You know; the way things were done in the old days...(or at the bare minimum he could assist the team at the WaPo with their coverage instead of complaining...)
Marr
(20,317 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)in a case where writers are involved. He does spying after all, and if he don't know, nobody knows who to trust.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Superhero Videogame Star and onetime journalist Bob Woodward has a sad that Edward Snowden talked to other journalists instead of to Legendary Journalist Bob Woodward. Not for his own sake, of course, but for the sake of Journamalism and Standards:
Read more at http://wonkette.com/534856/sad-bob-woodward-would-have-journalismed-edward-snowden-way-better-than-that-dumb-glenn-greenwald