Comment by dmix
8 years ago
Are you sure this is something NYTimes/WaPo/WSJ/etc would have detected and removed? I'm not familiar with the established practices for news orgs handling leaked documents arriving the mail from intel officers. It seems a lot of people are, so I'm curious to hear more about it...
It's not just some dots, although that's a massive failure too, of course. TheIntercept reporter contacted some random govt contractor to see if they could verify the documents. Ok so far. But the reporter also revealed the mail was sent from Augusta, Georgia, which is a major breach of confidentiality.[0]
[0] https://d3vv6lp55qjaqc.cloudfront.net/items/1k2I053M3J2z0f47... PDF page 12, paragraph 19
> Are you sure this is something NYTimes/WaPo/WSJ/etc would have detected and removed?
No, I'm not sure about that, and if they'd made the mistake after having claimed to be safe for whistleblowers I'd be gently complaining about them on an Internet message board too.