Whoa: NYT Now Has Snowden Docs Carried By Secret Courier into the US [View all]

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Last edited Fri Aug 23, 2013, 07:27 PM - Edit history (5)

The New York Times is in the Snowden game.


And get this:

Now the Times or an agent for the paper, too, appears to have carried digital files from the United Kingdom across international lines into the United States. Discussions of how to partner on the documents were carried out in person between top Guardian editors and Times executive editor Jill Abramson, all of whom declined to comment on the movement of documents. But it appears likely that someone at one of the two papers physically carried a drive with Snowden’s GCHQ leaks from London to New York or Washington — exactly what Miranda was stopped at Heathrow for doing

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/new-york-times-guardian-snowden
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/23/1233373/-Whoa-New-York-Times-Now-Has-Snowden-Docs-Carried-By-Secret-Courier-into-the-US

To paraphrase Winston Churchill:
The New York Times can always be counted on to do the right thing after it has exhausted all other options.

per Emptywheel .. the NYT reporter this is assigned to ... is noted gov't bootlicker Scott Shane:


That reporter is not James Risen — who of course broke the original NSA story with Eric Lichtblau. It is not Charlie Savage — who had an important story based on the Snowden leaks already.

It is Scott Shane.

The Times’s Charlie Savage and other reporters have chased the NSA story aggressively, despite Snowden’s choice to go to fillmmaker Laura Poitras, theGuardian’s Glenn Greenwald, and Barton Gellman, who has written about the documents for the Washington Post. Snowden said he did not go to the Times because the paper bowed to Bush Administration demands to delay a story on warrantless wiretapping in the interest of national security; he was afraid, he said, the paper would do the same with his revelations.

Now, Times reporter Scott Shane is at work on a series of stories expected to be published next month jointly with the Guardian, a source familiar with the plans said. The source said the internal arrangement has also been the cause of some tension in the newsroom, as other national security reporters working on the NSA story — Savage and James Risen, among others — are not centrally involved in stories based on the Guardian’s documents.

Scott Shane has an increasingly consistent ability to tell grand tales that serve the interests of The Powers that Be. And somehow his stories about extremely sensitive subjects like drones don’t get chased for leaks.

- See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/23/how-to-get-the-government-to-ease-up-involve-scott-shane/#sthash.SUr1gc4B.dpuf
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/23/how-to-get-the-government-to-ease-up-involve-scott-shane/

and why we should worry:
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/05/29/when-nyt-accused-jim-comey-of-approving-torture/
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/04/12/scott-shane-defends-the-commander-in-chiefs-language/