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Or she just trusted The Intercept too much, maybe they told her they wouldn't publish the originals then did.
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That's kind of the point. You don't become an NSA Analyst without knowing the ins and outs of information handling and the security mechanisms used to protect information. This would be akin to a chef schooled at Le Cordon Bleu allowing butter to burn in a pan. There are so many basic mistakes here that it seems out of the realm of possibilities of this happening as described.
This isn't like someone in the office printing a document and walking out with it. This is an organization that has the highest levels of security practices and controls in place to prevent this exact thing. Winner would've had to pull the document from the system (controlled), send the document to a printer (controlled), punch in her access code to retrieve her print job (controlled), then manage to get out of the building with the document (controlled). She would have had to evade not only the logical and physical security mechanisms to generate the document, but then evade the physical security mechanisms of walking out of the building with the piece of paper, which Security is looking and searching for when people leave the building.
So if Winner was smart enough to evade all of that security, she was all of a sudden dumb enough to not know that Data Loss Prevention technologies are used to identify the individual who printed the information? She was also dumb enough to not know that folding the paper is also an investigative give away? These may seem like small things, but to someone who handles this type of data these are really the basics that you would be aware of and not do unless you were a) extremely stupid, or b) wanted to get caught. I spoke with a couple of my military buddies who worked as contractors and held TSC, and they came away with the exact same initial feeling I had. This doesn't make sense. This smells like a plant, probably designed to get others who are leaking to thinking twice.
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The guys at The Intercept know just as well as she should, it's hard not to think they burned her on purpose for some reason.
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Greenwald has been under a lot of pressure since Citizen Four. Maybe this was his way of getting the heat taken off of him, or gaining access again. What this does do is pretty well kill his legitimacy with the whistleblower community.