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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A couple news organizations are reporting their own internal communications are included. Seems legit.
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
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.
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?
seems very likely, wapo journo broke this and it's alluded to: https://wapo.st/2ItjHfW
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...
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).
could you point me to how this story was exposed through declassification?
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
The secrecy is subpar--this was in The Washington Post a couple of days ago.