she's a red herring for "leakers". she may have done the deed, but she's a low level exposure. sacrifice.

It took them all of about 20 seconds to find her, no doubt. The article explains it better, but I'll be damned if I remember which of the articles it is. Apologies; I didn't think I'd need it.

...BEFORE they published it.

What precautions did they take?

Are you saying they received this intel knowing it was brought to them unsecured but ran with it anyway?

And probaby wore golves while handling the envelope!

Any possible future source would be a fool to give anyone over there any classified intel.

I don't know why a source would leak to anyone other than NYT or WaPo after this.

I can't see either of them doing this to a source.

They found the other 5 documents and when they came to find her copy, she couldn't produce it and confessed.

She had email correspondence with The Intercept, but the actual document was physically mailed by an "anonymous" person.

The Gmail led right to her. The Intercept should not have communicated by Gmail.

And the Intercept shoild have warned her to keep the originsl--to just send them a copy.

I feel sure Greenwald was more than happy to divulge anything he could.

Knowing she'd be busted when it came to light.

What steps did they take to protect and counsel their source?

...to think that if they expose this she'll get busted?

Why not the Post or the Times?

leaked to the Intercept. That I find suspicious. Perhaps they did more than fail to protect her. Maybe they helped lay the trap?

...at The Intercept and you realize Russia has lots of influence there.

Doesn't change the truth. The truth is - this entire Administration is compromised.

Does our country, our Federal government really need to spend so many billions/trillion? on NSA 'work'?

And why are anyone like Snowden and this leaker-woman allowed access to any classified files OR allowed to download ANYTHING at work?

Once even one employee is compromised because of lax management, there could be many more employees stealing files.

But your statement here indicates a pretty big misunderstanding about how these kinds of contractors dontheir work.

a new hire with no supervision.

A printed page has markings on it, date, time stamp, printer # and was easy for authorities to find where it came from and who used the work printer. The media did text pics to FBI to see if it was fake or not. She emailed it to media anonymously.

The contractor was supplying personnel. She would have had to have gotten a government security clearance and she would have worked in a government facility (most likely), under government rules. The contractor likely had nothing to do with this.

I've held a clearance for over 30 years now, and just did yet another "force protection" training refresher.

Among all the files to steal, how did she come to know the importance of this one..?

like Chelsea was.

The NSA has a very large and new facility at FT Gordon GA. Little is said about what happens there, but previous information released about the facility it replaced indicates that it was a facility used to monitor phone calls from overseas.

She was a linguist in the Air Force who came to work there after her enlistment was up. That would also be congruent with the role as a telephone interception role.

When the paper was presented they showed the actual copies of what they were sent, not a cut and paste job. It was noted that there were fold marks, indicating that someone had printed a hard copy and folded it.

They looked at the records of everyone who had printed a copy of that document. They looked to see who among those people had no reason based on their job duties to access and print that information and from there it was pretty easy to narrow down. They found 6 people who accessed it whose job didn't include any reason to be looking at it and from there likely got warrants to check email activity of all 6.

It's a next-to-invisible pattern of yellow dots (on white paper...). Each printer has a unique pattern and that allows people in the know to track down where exactly this print-out is from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography

The Intercept, I knew Greenwald turned her in. He's slime and has lived DOWN to every expectation I ever had of him.

for verification. Since the document was top secret, the verification source notified the government on 6/1.

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Were they compromised randomly? Or were they targeted for a reason?

Intercept sloppily published an image showing the leak was on paper.

She emailed them a few weeks before.