Snowden went to WAPO first but they didn't publish within his requested 72 hrs (ran by Govt)

[dkf]

So he went to Glenn Greenwald who did publish.

To effect his plan, Snowden asked for a guarantee that The Washington Post would publish — within 72 hours — the full text of a PowerPoint presentation describing PRISM, a top-secret surveillance program that gathered intelligence from Microsoft, Facebook, Google and other Silicon Valley giants. He also asked that The Post publish online a cryptographic key that he could use to prove to a foreign embassy that he was the document’s source.

I told him we would not make any guarantee about what we published or when. (The Post broke the story two weeks later, on Thursday. The Post sought the views of government officials about the potential harm to national security prior to publication and decided to reproduce only four of the 41 slides.)

Snowden replied succinctly, “I regret that we weren’t able to keep this project unilateral.” Shortly afterward he made contact with Glenn Greenwald of the British newspaper the Guardian.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/code-name-verax-snowden-in-exchanges-with-post-reporter-made-clear-he-knew-risks/2013/06/09/c9a25b54-d14c-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_print.html

[arcane1]

1. A PowerPoint presentation?

Is that what all this is about?

[Recursion]

2. Yes, that's the only thing he's produced other than his claims

And the infographics on the PowerPoint are horrible.

[arcane1]

13. A Visio Timeline would be nice n/t

[randome]

3. The PRISM stuff, yeah.

It's rather dismaying that all this time and energy has been spent for a PowerPoint presentation.

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[Recursion]

5. That's 1/4th of what Manning is charged with, too: PowerPoint presentations

We really need to find a better way to convey information in meetings.

[randome]

8. Microsoft is the true enemy!

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[Historic NY]

4. Unicorn sales list.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

7. ah, no... it's about the contents of the presentation

how do you think most communications go on in business and government these days anyway?

P O W E R P O I N T

[Recursion]

9. Funny side point

In a lot of situations, the exact same information isn't classified when it's written in a notebook, but is classified once it's typed into a laptop (though that probably wouldn't apply here). I just bring that up to point out it's a weird, arcane system and really needs to be reformed.

[MADem]

6. He wanted the shit to hit the fan while Obama was meeting with the Chinese.

It's starting to look like he might be a little unbalanced, AND he might have been rolled:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-cia-officer-officials-considering-nsa-whistleblowers-case-potential-chinese-espionage/

[dkf]

11. No...this would have made it earlier.

[MADem]

14. It blew up this week. We're reading about this kid hiding out in Hong Kong, and not about this:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/08/18851618-obama-chinese-president-talk-north-korea-cybersecurity-at-summit?lite

No wonder the dude on the left is smiling.

[sigmasix]

10. sounds like snowden was working under someone elses schedule

Makes you wonder who was behind snowden's 72 hr deadline and if there was supposed to be another so-called scandal to accompany Snowden's perfectly innocent actions.
All of this crap smells of right wing urgency and antiAmerican right wing distortions of the truth about America's legally elected commander in cheif. Because extreme right wing partisan dogma always comes before country.

[OilemFirchen]

12. Apropos of god knows what:

In 2003, Snowden enlisted in the United States Army with the hope of eventually joining the Special Forces. He was discharged after breaking both of his legs in a training accident. He then went to work as a security guard for a covert NSA facility at the University of Maryland. After that he went to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he worked on IT security. In 2007 the CIA stationed him with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for maintaining computer network security. Leaving the CIA in 2009, he worked for a private contractor inside an NSA facility on a United States military base in Japan.[5]

At the time of his departure from the US in May 2013, he had been working for defense contractor and private intelligence agency Booz Allen Hamilton for less than three months, as a system administrator inside of the NSA in Hawaii.[6][7] He described his life as "very comfortable", living with his girlfriend and earning a salary of "roughly US$200,000."[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

“I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life..."

From the OP link.

[FarCenter]

15. I'm waiting to hear from the girlfriend

Where's the National Enquirer when you really need them?