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Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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Can someone confirm that the US Government is actually running a Tumblr account to publish declassified content? This seem absurd to me.

it's real:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/intelligence-co...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/08/21/us-launches-ic-on-t...

In recent years, the IC has made major strides toward enhancing transparency. These include establishing the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) IC on the Record, a repository for declassified documents, official statements, speeches and testimony on the Tumblr blogging platform. To date, more than 5,000 pages of officially released documents have been published on IC on the Record.

http://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=7210

Re: Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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>>> "without having been attributed to Snowden"

1) Non-attribution does not mean a different source per se. Some documents can be verified without any discussion of their source. (ie the NSA acknowledges their authenticity by demanding their takedown as "classified"). Powers are building cases against Snowden. Those releasing documents don't want to help that process.

2) Attribution to Snowden does is no guarantee that he is the source. Snowden is not the author, just the delivery means. And he doesn't know personally exactly which documents he handed over. There were just too many for that to be true. So to protect another source they may falsely attribute something to Snowden, with or without his permission. Not good journalism, but very possible.

There are so many documents in these agencies that leaks are inevitable. With tens of thousands, perhaps a hundred thousand people in positions to read them, documents have appeared constantly. Snowden was simply a massive uptick in an ongoing stream, not the first and no doubt not the last.

My disappointment is that with all of these leaks I have to give up the childhood hope that aliens have visited us. Such secrets could never be kept by these agencies.

Re: Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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If I was an NSA employee and the Snowden leaks came out, I'd consider it my opportunity to leak information on the projects that had been making my skin crawl too. You could release the documents without attribution and most would assume it's just more Snowden.

Re: Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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This analysis seems OK. Be careful with this blog, though, as the author has shown selective, pro-NSA reporting on Schneier's blog where both he and other leakers frequent. His title is P/K. We've called him out repeatedly for ignoring the bad on one side in the leaks while criticizing Snowden. Blog bias was clear in original content which was just pictures of government, classified gear with fanboy comments.

Again, though, this is an exceptional one that seems more reliable. Probably because existence of extra leakers is important to both sides for different reasons.

Re: Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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This analysis seems OK. Be careful with this blog, though, as the author has shown selective, pro-NSA reporting on Schneier's blog where both he and other leakers frequent. His title is P/K. We've called him out repeatedly for ignoring the bad on one side in the leaks while criticizing Snowden. Blog bias was clear in original content which was just pictures of government, classified gear with fanboy comments. Again,…

Electrospaces has better detailed analysis than anywhere else I've found on the internet, but the author also has a point of view.

Re: Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden

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This analysis seems OK. Be careful with this blog, though, as the author has shown selective, pro-NSA reporting on Schneier's blog where both he and other leakers frequent. His title is P/K. We've called him out repeatedly for ignoring the bad on one side in the leaks while criticizing Snowden. Blog bias was clear in original content which was just pictures of government, classified gear with fanboy comments. Again,…

What do you mean by P/K?
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