re: #215 Killgore Trout

He shopped the story to WaPo before he went to Greenwald….
Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks

That does raise another ethics question in the whole “whistle blowing”/media thing. The Post knew him and what he was doing, but at some point would they be obligated to turn him in? Suppose he was shopping around nuke schematics or bio warfare info? There’s a fine line in there somewhere.

That really is a major question, isn’t it? What is the breaking point at which the need to inform the public is outweighed by the need to maintain national security? If Snowden had been shopping a list of agents that he claims were involved in this program, would WaPo turned him over to the authorities or published the story?