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WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

The Post received countless benefits off Snowden's back: now its Editorial Page wants him imprisoned.

Click to view the original at theintercept.com

Hasnain says:

This is pretty messed up. Source reveals N documents, you reveal M

"What’s critical here is that Kaplan’s list of Bad Snowden Revelations (just like the Post‘s) invariably involves stories published not by Snowden (or even by The Intercept or The Guardian), but by The New York Times and The Washington Post. But like the Post editorial page editors, Kaplan is too much of a coward to accuse the nation’s top editors at those two papers of treason, helping terrorists, or endangering national security, so he pretends that it was Snowden, and Snowden alone, who made the choice to reveal these programs to the public. If Kaplan and the Post editors truly believe that all of these stories ought to have remained secret and have endangered people’s safety, why are they not attacking the editors and newspapers that made the ultimate decision to expose them? Snowden himself never publicly disclosed a single document, so any programs that were revealed were the ultimate doing of news organizations."

Posted on 2016-09-18T16:42:26+0000