Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass: First question NYT asks: Why didn't you leak to us?

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57. Well, Jane Harman who worked with Bushco to MANIPULATE the news from the NYT then was a DEMOCRAT!

So even then, there were corporatist Democrats that were willing to throw American's civil liberties under the bus to protect the powerful elites of the "shadow government" that uses the security state to control things. The bottom line is, even if the NYT later sought to make money from this article being released after the election, it was shown to be an entity that could be manipulated by the PTB to prevent the news doing what it is supposed to do (not just make money)! And that is inform the public in a TIMELY fashion, that would have provided the American voting populace to have important information they should have known about before the election when their voice could be a part of the equation to tell our government where they wanted it to go the coming four years in terms of what kid of security state they wanted. The NYT FAILED the American people in that regard, and we paid a price in perhaps not having choices made in that election that might have put a stop to the unconstitutional civil liberty violations that had started before then that I think most Americans are against.

I'm sure that Snowden noticed that the NYT sacrificed the American people's right to know at a critical time even if ultimately they published their story at a time when it could have less impact. It probably served as a warning to him that the NYT might this time around sacrifice Snowden's well being in exchange for them making money off of publishing a story he provided info for at a time that would avoid government accountability that the NYT could coordinate with the PTB like they did before in 2004 at the behest of Bushco and Democrat Jane Harman. I'm sure that Snowden, though he was prepared to make many sacrifices, didn't want to replicate the experiences of Bradley Manning himself if he could avoid it, especially if by avoiding this, he would be empowered to have more opportunity to get his message out in an effective way.