List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet"

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74. OK, this brings up an interesting point

Which gets at the heart of the whole "how do we know it's not blackmail fodder" angle.

Greenwald has said (in an angry twitter exchange with Assange et al.) that he will insist on vetting what he releases in the name of a no-harm rule, although he disagrees with the US corp media on the grounds (basically, he will only not release stuff if the gov't provides credible basis that harm would result, see here.)

But let's assume that the list of domestic targets is a mix of citizens and non-citizens, some of which are counter-espionage targets and therefore arguably "deserve" to be spied on by the FBI (but the FBI presumably has access to the full list, or possibly, the full unredacted NSA datastream of all calls and e-mails, if they want to get a secret warrant to investigate, say, an activist on Patriot Act grounds, like they did to bring down Eliot Spitzer.)

So how does Greenwald know which names not to release? On the grounds that, while they might have the right not to be domestically spied on by the NSA, they are actual agents of a foreign power and looking up their name on the list might tip them off? Do the rest of us have the right to know if we are being secretly and illegally spied upon, e.g. on FOIA grounds? Does the blanket collection of data (not just metadata, according to Gellman in the Washington Post, but a raw data stream of most calls and e-mails which is then shared with five other allied intelligence companies who then apparently comb through it for us, allowing the NSA to keep their hands clean.) Does it matter which people are being individually spied on if that is the case?