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JonLP24

(29,354 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:47 AM Oct 2020

The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit.

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All the drama would make this another colorful story about extreme newsroom dysfunction had The Intercept not caught the attention of a naïve National Security Agency linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner in 2017. Ms. Winner, then 25, had been listening to the site’s podcast. She printed out a secret report on Russian cyberattacks on American voting software that seemed to address some of Mr. Greenwald’s doubts about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and mailed it to The Intercept’s Washington, D.C., post office box in early May.

The Intercept scrambled to publish a story on the report, ignoring the most basic security precautions. The lead reporter on the story sent a copy of the document, which contained a crease showing it had been printed out, to the N.S.A. media affairs office, all but identifying Ms. Winner as the leaker.

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Ms. Winner may have thought she was mailing the documents to Mr. Greenwald and Ms. Poitras, who went to great lengths to protect Mr. Snowden. But Mr. Greenwald was in Brazil and when he heard about the document, he was not interested. He told me that he considered its claims about Russian hacking during the 2016 race “wildly overblown” and that it didn’t include direct evidence to persuade him otherwise.

Ms. Poitras, meanwhile, had at that point left The Intercept, and gone on to establish a nonprofit production firm, Field of Vision, a part of First Look Media, which also includes The Intercept and Mr. Omidyar’s other ventures.

New York Times
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/media/the-intercept-source-reality-winner.amp.html

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The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. (Original Post) JonLP24 Oct 2020 OP
There's something really screwy about Greenwald. Mike 03 Oct 2020 #1
James Risen did Russia related stories JonLP24 Oct 2020 #2
If/when Joe Biden is elected, I hope he Parsons or NewDayOranges Oct 2020 #3
I never paid attention to Greenwald Gothmog Oct 2020 #4
He gotten worse over the years JonLP24 Oct 2020 #5

Mike 03

(17,326 posts)
1. There's something really screwy about Greenwald.
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:56 AM
Oct 2020

Has The Intercept ever done a negative story about Russia?

Disclosure: I used to think Greenwald was one of the good guys, back during the Snowden revelations.

JonLP24

(29,354 posts)
2. James Risen did Russia related stories
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 07:18 AM
Oct 2020

Glenn Greenwald was actually criticized by Aaron Maté for paying a high salary to James Risen for writing Russia related stories. Greenwald explained to him he has excellent national security sources & they outbid others in the market. I find it interesting the one person with great national security sources would report on Russian interference accurately.

Gothmog

(155,416 posts)
4. I never paid attention to Greenwald
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 07:57 AM
Oct 2020

I do not consider this person to be a credible journalist

JonLP24

(29,354 posts)
5. He gotten worse over the years
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 08:38 AM
Oct 2020

He was actually a good reporter during the Bush administration.

I have no idea why he is acting the way he is acting during the Trump administration. I do know Russia interference denial is hurting progressives and I blame Glenn Greenwald as a major influence for that.

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