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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYoda 'There is another''
Its Official: There Is a New Edward Snowden
Authorities have concluded there is at least one other leaker spilling classified secrets about the governments surveillance programs, according to CNN reporter Evan Perez.
Close observers of the surveillance leaks have for months speculated that there may be another leaker besides Snowden. The Intercept, a channel of First Look Media launched by journalist Glenn Greenwald, has routinely published leaks from Edward Snowden since it formed earlier this year. But two recent stories, including one published Tuesday about the governments terrorist watch database, cited unnamed sources.
One document is from August 2013, months after Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, downloaded documents while employed at Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii and fled to Hong Kong, where he met Greenwald.
Greenwald himself said in July that it seems clear at this point there is another leaker besides Snowden.
Snowden became an household name overnight last summer when his leaks revealed intimate details of the NSAs secret phone and Internet surveillance programs. A seemingly endless deluge of revelations continued throughout the year and into 2014.
When asked about CNNs report, an intelligence agency spokesman declined to comment.
While certainly the most known, Snowden is not the only person in recent years to leak sensitive government information. The Obama administration has charged more people with violating the Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined.
http://www.defenseone.com/management/2014/08/its-official-there-new-edward-snowden/90665/
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Yoda 'There is another'' (Original Post)
Ichingcarpenter
Aug 2014
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reddread
(6,896 posts)1. CNN- the official mouthpiece of US propagandists
isnt that the only real story of consequence here?
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. So you say that there's not another leaker?
Because the story references CNN?
Bryant
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)3. We need one with an agenda of busting them out and burning them.
And I wish every spook network on this little blue marble was busted out with them.
I want methods, sources, dark revenue streams, and personnel on every phone, pad, and computer and every printing puking out hard copies.
There seems no other way to our put the rogues back under civilian control but to destroy it and start again much more carefully as needed.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)4. Rugh ro.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)5. Always two there are, no more, no less. A Master and an apprentice.
But which was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?