Leak Authenticity Debates

Discussions center on the legitimacy, sources, and journalistic handling of leaked government documents and stories reported by outlets like NYT, WaPo, and Guardian, with references to Snowden, Wikileaks, and incidents of sources being compromised.

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jsz0 Nov 26, 2009 View on HN

A couple news organizations are reporting their own internal communications are included. Seems legit.

yorwba Nov 17, 2019 View on HN

The article says it was leaked to the NYT, so maybe link to them instead?Likehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552873https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21554359https://news.yc

dang Dec 12, 2022 View on HN

Yes. This story has proven impossible to wait for because it was leaked and is being widely reported, so I guess we're going with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945863 - as you say, that article seems to be the 'original source' of at least the current wave.

jazzyk May 22, 2016 View on HN

Sorry, but this is FUD. He didn't dump information on a random server somewhere. He worked with the journalists from The Guardian, The WaPo and the NYT. They said they reached out to the gov to work with them and were turned down. How much more effort would satisfy you?

mzs Jun 10, 2019 View on HN

seems very likely, wapo journo broke this and it's alluded to: https://wapo.st/2ItjHfW

InternalRun Oct 13, 2021 View on HN

I believe you’re right especially since they’ve blown a source before by posting a original copy of leaked documentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/media/the-interc...

pdkl95 Jul 30, 2015 View on HN

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-wh...This may be the source (though the people involved have said as much in other essays and interviews).

DoctorOetker Sep 7, 2019 View on HN

could you point me to how this story was exposed through declassification?

neuronexmachina Apr 23, 2024 View on HN

It's based on emails published as evidence in a trial:* https://www.justice.gov/usdoj-media/atr/media/1322631/dl?inl...* https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf* <a href="https://ww

cafard May 24, 2018 View on HN

The secrecy is subpar--this was in The Washington Post a couple of days ago.