Last Minute US Govt Claims Put Halt to Greenwald 'Bombshell'

[twomp]

At midday on Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald announced that revelations he has termed among "the most important" to result from documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would be published at midnight.

However, despite the growing anticipation on Monday and just hours prior to the expected publication, Greenwald went back to Twitter and announced:


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As of noon on Tuesday, the reporting was still not showing on The Intercept, the online outlet edited by Greenwald where much of his most recent reporting on the documents has appeared, and no additional updates on the status of the reporting were seen on Twitter.

In various venues in recent months, Greenwald has suggested that the most explosive 'bombshell' reporting based on the documents would come last and recently discussed how the focus of the reporting will reveal the specific individuals or kinds of people that the NSA is targeting inside the United States with its "collect it all" approach to digital surveillance.

In an interview with The Sunday Times of London at the end of May, Greenwald said the "finale" of his NSA reporting would answer specific questions about those targeted.

"One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying," he told the Times, "is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?'


http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/01-4

[HOLLYWOOD]

Here's the angles...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jse67fHwcH8#t=85

[Brian4Liberty]

In various venues in recent months, Greenwald has suggested that the most explosive 'bombshell' reporting based on the documents would come last and recently discussed how the focus of the reporting will reveal the specific individuals or kinds of people that the NSA is targeting inside the United States with its "collect it all" approach to digital surveillance.

And it would not be surprising if the targeting was consistent with IRS targeting.

[jkob]

release them already, getting tired of hearing about these supposed bombshells that never come

[kcchiefs6465]

And it would not be surprising if the targeting was consistent with IRS targeting.
It would be surprising if it wasn't.

That, the anti-war dissidents, various Clerics and Imams, militias.

In no particular order.

Essentially, and literally, anyone who opposes them on any particular lockstep.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg


und wer nicht tanzen will am Schluss,
weiß noch nicht, dass er tanzen muss!

[hardrightedge]

This makes Greenwald look really bad...obviously trying to hype his site...

I don't think anyone really gives a fuck about this release...only political junkies...

[kcchiefs6465]

This makes Greenwald look really bad...obviously trying to hype his site...

I don't think anyone really gives a fuck about this release...only political junkies...
The PRISM story went through the same process.

As far as who cares, it depends who is listed.

[surf]

This makes Greenwald look really bad...obviously trying to hype his site...

I don't think anyone really gives a fuck about this release...only political junkies...
I do, and i'm not a political junky, i'm a freedom junky

Greenwald is a hero. he may look bad to you, but not to me.

[No1butPaul]

http://www.vocativ.com/tech/hacking/snowden-leaks-way/



Just over a year ago, the Guardian’s Glen Greenwald published the biggest scoop of his career: an exposé into a sprawling surveillance network set up by the National Security Agency. As the story goes, Greenwald’s source, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden, met with Greenwald in a Hong Kong hotel room and handed over an encrypted thumb drive filled with classified documents.

Greenwald chose to leak the documents one by one, rather than dump them online all at once. And apparently, there’s plenty more in that thumb drive. ”I like to think of it as a fireworks show,” Greenwald told GQ last month. “You want to save your best for last.”

But now, it looks like Greenwald might be getting scooped himself.

New York-based site Cryptome claimed on Twitter this week that it will publish the remaining Snowden documents in the coming weeks.


1 July 2014

Vocativ Interviews Cryptome on Snowden Releases

About a third of Cryptome media interviews have never been used. Some interviews have ill intentions, but don't they all seek asymmetry, take more than give, don't we all. Thus, this.

From: "Markowitz, Eric" <EMarkowitz[at]vocativ.com>
To: "cryptome[at]earthlink.net" <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>
Subject: Press query - Snowden docs
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:55:33 +0000

Good afternoon -

I'm a reporter in New York with Vocativ. I'll be doing a post about the claim that all Snowden docs will be released in July. As this is pretty bold statement, I've listed a few question below. Certainly understand if you cannot comment on some of these.

Will Cryptome be releasing the documents?
I see from this conversation that Cryptome is asserting civilians will leak the documents in July*does this mean Cryptome will not be releasing, but be hosting?
Is Cryptome vetting these documents when/if it does host/upload?
Which "civilians" are involved?
Is there a specific reason the documents will be leaking in July?


Just trying to get some clarity here before we publish*my deadline is 5pm ET today.

Feel free to call me at 646.213.3836 if that's more convenient.

Thanks very much*I appreciate your response.

Best,
Eric Markowitz

To: "Markowitz, Eric" <EMarkowitz[at]vocativ.com>
From: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Press query - Snowden docs
Date: 6/30/201, 01:47PM

Hi Eric,

Synopsis:

July is a summitry of anti-spy and pro-spy events, HOPE and Aspen Security Forum. Both sides will be pushing their interests, with dramatic revelations by newsmaking and news breaking speakers. HOPE has lined up Daniel Ellsberg and an unnamed special guest (some claim will be a Snowden team member), along a with a slew of anti-spy speakers.

At Aspen there is a star-studded list of top military and spy officials, defense industry and main stream media parading the need to combat the Snowdens and the WikiLeakers who do not understand the necessity of a luxurious and wasteful natsec and spy warmongering.

We, modestly, will conclude our kick-spy Kickstarter campaign in asynchrony with the Bold Names. To hell with all of the preeners who from all appearances, get togethers, books, public relations and mutual consultation are working together to assure they remain synchronous.

We look forward to continuing to aid and abet release of carefully orchestrated disclosures of sensitive and classified material, even if poorly narrated and whispered to boost imaginative value. To wit, the Snowden documents along with protestations by USG so sweetly combined as sweetheart pacts.

Citizens will continue to leak documents, everybody is a citizen, military, industy, media, ngos, all those millions with access to the forbidden fruit of a secrecy-demented nation. We will aid and abet them, host and distribute them, without favor, cheap, cheap, cheap.

We do not vet, only informed citizens can vet the tawdry disclosures of secretkeepers -- which crescendo in times of crisis, as with the uprising of the resurgent war on terrorism promised by Obama at West Point, to the great pleasure of the usual war is great suspects.

All civilians are involved, they own the place and are accountable for its inhabitants, despite insitutionalized favoritism of race, clan, mob, wealth, poverty, wit and witlessness. All civilians predate on civilians, they are animals too.

July is hot as hell, so a great month to burn through public money ferociously, battling over which voracious information producer can inflame the newsmaking loins of peace and war: in times of both prepare for both, endlessly elbow bending at the perfidy of the PR competitors.

So, definitely, Snowden documents will be released in July. If the contending parties have their way, all of the documents will be released to kickstart the war on terrorism, in Iraq, in Iran, in North Korea, in the Holy Land, across Africa, Caribbean Drug Sea, the US-Mexican border, and the areas of operations always on alert in DC, Fort Meade and Colorado Springs.

Not for nothing is July the hottest time for political campaigning for patriotism, the 4th sacred, the panels whiskeyed. Hillary is frontrunner for inebriated warmaking, on that the political spectrum agrees. Hic.

To: "Markowitz, Eric" <EMarkowitz[at]vocativ.com>
From: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Press query - Snowden docs
Date: 6/30/201, 01:51PM

To avoid the slop just sent, our tweets on the July spy festivals are the best account of what we're up to with Snowden releases, more quotable too.

Regards,

John

From: "Markowitz, Eric" <EMarkowitz[at]vocativ.com>
To: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Press query - Snowden docs
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:40:43 +0000

Thanks for the responses, John. Don't mean to sound combative here at
all--I value the work you do--but I think your response was left pretty
vague, perhaps intentionally so.

Just a couple of follow-ups--I know you say more Snowden docs will be
published--what role, specifically, will Cryptome have in publishing them?

Also, any context around what the new documents will reveal?

Lastly--any comment on who will be supplying these documents?

Thanks again. Again, my deadline is 5pm ET.

Best,
Eric


Sorry to be late.

Just a couple of follow-ups--I know you say more Snowden docs will be published--what role, specifically, will Cryptome have in publishing them?

Same as usual, strip the narrative, publish the images, that is the Snowden docs without the window dressing. While awaiting technical documents which have been almost completely lacking.

Also, any context around what the new documents will reveal?

GG has promised names of US person spied upon. We "hear" -- vague, no attribution, what else -- technical people are demanding more technical documents needed to combat techniology of spying well beyond those promoted for "public debate." Those technical docs may be being provided subversively so countermeasures can be devised out of sight of officials, hopefully -- who surely suspect more is being released covertly than made public.

Lastly--any comment on who will be supplying these documents?

We "understand" -- yes, more vagueness -- there are a number of persons holding documents without access, others who have limited access, and some who have full access.

There are trip wires for each to play a role in release(s) depending on circumstances, staged as now, increasingly more, or full. This is common opsec which Snowden is highly trained in, as are comsec experts inside and outside official domains.

Subterfuge is obligatory on all sides. The Snowden media team has done a masterful decoy operation to allow for development of countermeasures under guidance of Snowden and technical and legal wizards.

Question will always remain if the team has been penetrated, once, twice, many times as potential rewards for betrayal increase. This too is considered in opsec planning and execution. Thus the compartmentation of the documents, not only the Snowden media team we know, but by the others we don't, established before and after the team we know.

Past evidence is that there will spring of leaks of Snowden's leak, accidental or deliberate.

The NYTimes account today of the NSA Director is a classic subterfuge of dispensing chaff.

Let us know when your report appears.

Regards,

John

[hardrightedge]

I do, and i'm not a political junky, i'm a freedom junky

Greenwald is a hero. he may look bad to you, but not to me.

I like GG but I don't consider him a hero...he's doing his job...
Snowden is the hero...

[HOLLYWOOD]

Greenwald needs to release all the data on US targets... redact nothing.

Remember what the government and their statist shills breach ever day,


"If you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide."


Well, hide nothing Stasi State hypocrites