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kpete

(72,005 posts) Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:09 AM Oct 2014

Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn Greenwald

Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn Greenwald
Citizenfour, new film on spying whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows journalist Greenwald discussing other source

The investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has found a second leaker inside the US intelligence agencies, according to a new documentary about Edward Snowden that premiered in New York on Friday night.

Towards the end of filmmaker Laura Poitras’s portrait of Snowden – titled Citizenfour, the label he used when he first contacted her – Greenwald is seen telling Snowden about a second source.

Snowden, at a meeting with Greenwald in Moscow, expresses surprise at the level of information apparently coming from this new source. Greenwald, fearing he will be overheard, writes the details on scraps of paper.

The specific information relates to the number of the people on the US government’s watchlist of people under surveillance as a potential threat or as a suspect. The figure is an astonishingt 1.2 million.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/second-leaker-in-us-intelligence-says-glenn-greenwald

and also interesting:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/edward-snowden-girlfriend-moscow-documentary-poitras

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Second leaker in US intelligence, says Glenn Greenwald (Original Post) kpete Oct 2014 OP

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OMG Glenn Greenwald knows the location of the Holy Grail? VanillaRhapsody Oct 2014 #2

I take it the 1 mill.+ watch list hasn't been publicized. Eleanors38 Oct 2014 #3

Greenwald has already been saying that shit for months now Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #4

This is the first I've heard about a second leaker. DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2014 #5

here's a start: Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #6

Thanks. That somehow escaped my notice in July. DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2014 #7

If this leaker has the fuckin' stones to do what Snowden and Greenwald won't... Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #8

Glad to read people inside the Secret Government understand what's at stake. Octafish Oct 2014 #9

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VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

2. OMG Glenn Greenwald knows the location of the Holy Grail?

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Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:45 AM

Oct 2014

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

3. I take it the 1 mill.+ watch list hasn't been publicized.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 10:54 AM

Oct 2014

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. Greenwald has already been saying that shit for months now

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:02 AM

Oct 2014

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He has this distasteful habit of recycling his "breaking news" from time to time...

On the flipside, I've heard the NSA has been searching for a Russian mole within its ranks, and I wondering if there's a possible connection between these two seeming unrelated phenomenon....

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

5. This is the first I've heard about a second leaker.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:15 AM

Oct 2014

Do you have a link handy? I'd like to read what Greenwald's wrote about this leaker months ago. Thanks.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

6. here's a start:

Reply to DisgustipatedinCA (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:51 AM

Oct 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025207985

And it actually goes back earlier than this...For more background, you can view Greenwald twitter account around that date (if you can stomach it)

So Greenwald played dumb, and only confirmed his "big reveal" for his partner's documentary premiere...Like I've always said, Greenwald isn't even trying to hide his ulterior motives anymore...

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

7. Thanks. That somehow escaped my notice in July.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:54 AM

Oct 2014

I'm heartened to hear there's a second leaker.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

8. If this leaker has the fuckin' stones to do what Snowden and Greenwald won't...

Reply to DisgustipatedinCA (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 11:57 AM

Oct 2014

then yes, this is potentially a good development...

But I have my doubts, and the usual suspects will continue to get a free ride...

Their whole circus of self-congratulatory attention whoring has been nothing but a money grabbing farce -- I had such high hopes for them back in the beginning...

Maybe I need to start on square one again -- Can anyone help me understand why it's such a good thing to have all of our classified intel up for auction in the media marketplace while other nations get to keep theirs under wraps??

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

9. Glad to read people inside the Secret Government understand what's at stake.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 12:23 PM

Oct 2014

Democracy.

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