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In reply to the discussion: Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? - Bill Keller/NYT [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)32. Gellman was only involved around the beginning of May
Poitras was not Snowdens first choice as the person to whom he wanted to leak thousands of N.S.A. documents. In fact, a month before contacting her, he reached out to Greenwald, who had written extensively and critically about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. Snowden anonymously sent him an e-mail saying he had documents he wanted to share, and followed that up with a step-by-step guide on how to encrypt communications, which Greenwald ignored. Snowden then sent a link to an encryption video, also to no avail.
Its really annoying and complicated, the encryption software, Greenwald said as we sat on his porch during a tropical drizzle. He kept harassing me, but at some point he just got frustrated, so he went to Laura.
Snowden had read Greenwalds article about Poitrass troubles at U.S. airports and knew she was making a film about the governments surveillance programs; he had also seen a short documentary about the N.S.A. that she made for The New York Times Op-Docs. He figured that she would understand the programs he wanted to leak about and would know how to communicate in a secure way.
By late winter, Poitras decided that the stranger with whom she was communicating was credible. There were none of the provocations that she would expect from a government agent no requests for information about the people she was in touch with, no questions about what she was working on. Snowden told her early on that she would need to work with someone else, and that she should reach out to Greenwald. She was unaware that Snowden had already tried to contact Greenwald, and Greenwald would not realize until he met Snowden in Hong Kong that this was the person who had contacted him more than six months earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?pagewanted=5&_r=0
Its really annoying and complicated, the encryption software, Greenwald said as we sat on his porch during a tropical drizzle. He kept harassing me, but at some point he just got frustrated, so he went to Laura.
Snowden had read Greenwalds article about Poitrass troubles at U.S. airports and knew she was making a film about the governments surveillance programs; he had also seen a short documentary about the N.S.A. that she made for The New York Times Op-Docs. He figured that she would understand the programs he wanted to leak about and would know how to communicate in a secure way.
By late winter, Poitras decided that the stranger with whom she was communicating was credible. There were none of the provocations that she would expect from a government agent no requests for information about the people she was in touch with, no questions about what she was working on. Snowden told her early on that she would need to work with someone else, and that she should reach out to Greenwald. She was unaware that Snowden had already tried to contact Greenwald, and Greenwald would not realize until he met Snowden in Hong Kong that this was the person who had contacted him more than six months earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?pagewanted=5&_r=0
December 2012: According to Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden first emailed him, anonymously. In an interview with Harpers, Greenwald says he initially ignored the emails.
January, 2013: Edward Snowden contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, according to an interview in Salon. Poitras notes her familiarity with encryption methods thanks to her close contact with Wikileaks for a previous film, and her involvement with TOR developer and hacker Jacob Appelbaum (who was investigated for his ties to Wikileaks in 2011).
February-May 2013: Snowden exchanges emails with Greenwald and Poitras, according to the Washington Post, but does not reveal his identity.
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Early May, 2013: Snowden indirectly contacts Barton Gellman (the meaning of indirectly is unclear), who begins working on the PRISM story at the Washington Post.
http://joshuafoust.com/a-timeline-of-edward-snowden-associates/
January, 2013: Edward Snowden contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, according to an interview in Salon. Poitras notes her familiarity with encryption methods thanks to her close contact with Wikileaks for a previous film, and her involvement with TOR developer and hacker Jacob Appelbaum (who was investigated for his ties to Wikileaks in 2011).
February-May 2013: Snowden exchanges emails with Greenwald and Poitras, according to the Washington Post, but does not reveal his identity.
...
Early May, 2013: Snowden indirectly contacts Barton Gellman (the meaning of indirectly is unclear), who begins working on the PRISM story at the Washington Post.
http://joshuafoust.com/a-timeline-of-edward-snowden-associates/
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I know what you are saying but where can I get real news? You are concerned that GG will slant
rhett o rick
Oct 2013
#13
I predict there will be a lot of crow eating by certain critics. I wonder how many will own
adirondacker
Oct 2013
#3
He advocates a more "activist, more partisan journalsim". I think that's the biggest
okaawhatever
Oct 2013
#15
Snowden went to Greenwald first with the story because he liked Greenwald's work
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2013
#18
That is not the information I have. Gellman was working with Poitras very early on. She asked for
okaawhatever
Oct 2013
#27
A most excellent exchange of letters expressing their points of view, having said that
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#25