Last Minute US Govt Claims Put Halt to Greenwald 'Bombshell' [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Common Dreams

Published on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 by Common Dreams

Last Minute US Govt Claims Put Halt to Greenwald 'Bombshell'

Journalist says his team is investigating objections raised

- Jon Queally, staff writer

At midday on Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald announced that revelations he has termed among "the most important" to result from documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would be published at midnight.

However, despite the growing anticipation on Monday and just hours prior to the expected publication, Greenwald went back to Twitter and announced:

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After 3 months working on our story, USG today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing

9:32 PM - 30 Jun 2014

As of noon on Tuesday, the reporting was still not showing on The Intercept, the online outlet edited by Greenwald where much of his most recent reporting on the documents has appeared, and no additional updates on the status of the reporting were seen on Twitter.

In various venues in recent months, Greenwald has suggested that the most explosive 'bombshell' reporting based on the documents would come last and recently discussed how the focus of the reporting will reveal the specific individuals or kinds of people that the NSA is targeting inside the United States with its "collect it all" approach to digital surveillance.

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