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The Post’s coverage of the Citizen Snowden dustup signaled a sea change in how the capital’s paper of record describes the man who filched the crown jewels of the NSA. Eight years ago, executive editor Marty Baron accepted the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for reporting with a salute to the paper’s source, Snowden. “Disclosing the massive expansion of the NSA’s surveillance network absolutely was a public service,” Baron said.

This week, the Post, now helmed by Sally Buzbee, a former executive editor of the Associated Press, took a distinctly cooler editorial line. The lead of the Post’s page one story made no mention of public service or Pulitzer prizes, only criminal charges. Snowden “leaked information about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges,” the Post reported, adding, “the 39 year old Snowden considers himself a whistleblower.” The Post, one might conclude, no longer does.


https://www.spytalk.co/p/the-curious-fate-of-citizen-snowdens


Дальше он рассказывает какую-то странную историю о том, как некие деятели хранили в Нью-Йорке тайный архив Сноудена - хранили под семью замками, но, судя по всему, вовсе не делали секрета из этого факта и даже пускали кого-то посмотреть этот архив. А потом почему-то перестали.

По ходу дела он, конечно, добавляет пару дурацких замечаний (называет стандартные обязательства о неразглашении "favorite tool of former President Donald Trump, sexual predators and tobacco companies", а Орбана - диктатором), но это в наши дни почти неизбежно.

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