Delighted to announce I’ve joined First Look Media, working w/ @ggreenwald, @jeremyscahill, Laura Poitras etc. https://t.co/fdUXJ9yADe

— Peter Maass (@maassp) February 6, 2014

@maassp: Your profile of Laura Poitras was a job application, seeing that she just hired you. @jayrosen_nyu can “advise” on the media ethics

— Jamie Kirchick (@jkirchick) February 14, 2014

Maass’ Poitras profile (from Aug 13):
nytimes.com

Maass’ “Snowden Interview” (questions and answers passed through Poitras):
nytimes.com

A Q&A w/ Maass on his Poitras profile:
6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com

It was understood that I wouldn’t write anything that would jeopardize their security. I also knew they wouldn’t show me their documents or tell me every detail about how they got them from Snowden or what they planned to do with them. Snowden has been charged with espionage. They could be still be charged with something. They don’t want to make public the types of information, beyond the documents themselves, that could be used to build a case against him or them. Basic things like where Glenn’s house is in Rio I don’t mention in the story, just in case. I think it’s safe to assume the U.S. government knows where Glenn lives, but other governments and private individuals probably don’t. And we did have some explicit conversations about what they preferred I not include.

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When I first arrived on a Saturday morning, Laura had sent me an e-mail with the name of the hotel where she was meeting with Glenn and the other two Guardian reporters who were visiting to help with stories. I went straight there from the airport and watched the four of them working on stories and on computer-security issues. It was like an embed. I’ve done military embeds in Iraq. It was either explicitly stated in Iraq, or just really clear, that you didn’t write about operational matters — tactics, perimeter security, patrol plans — that could jeopardize the present or future security of the troops you were with. The military doesn’t show you everything, but it is there in the room, and they are not necessarily able or trying to hide everything. They depend somewhat on your discretion. Both were classified environments.