Significant Holes Emerge in the Washington Post’s NSA Story After It’s Too Late
While I strongly disagree with Marcy’s take on a lot of things in the general Greenwald sphere of interest, she’s not a stupid person. Yet she got this totally wrong and had to retract it later. It’s safe to say that’s it’s partly because her agenda informed her reaction, but also considerable blame has to go to Gellman for incomplete, spotty reporting. It wasn’t until later in the day, via his Twitter feed that Gellman clarified this rather murky item.
So, no, there’s no evidence in the Snowden documents — at least the ones in this article — that NSA was intercepting the president’s emails. Instead, there were around 1,200 references to the president in emails written by other people. Imagine that. People talking about the president. Crazy.
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