11 March 2014

Barton Gellman Eyeball

http://cryptome.org/2014/03/gellman-sxsw.htm

How has the NSA surveillance story stayed live?

"Snowden paid very careful attention to what had happened to other whistleblowers that hadn't had a long-term impact, and was careful to produce the documents... If Snowden had asked me 6-8 months later [if this story and still been live] but he has got to have exceed every plausible estimation about impact. It's because he didn't realise the documents all at once."

That pace was less about Snowden releasing the documents slowly but about the work journalists need to do to verify and interrogate before they publish. ...

How did Snowden get the documents out?

Asked whether he has been harassed when writing about Snowden, Gellman said no.

"I have not been harassed. I've had some interesting exchanges with government reps of various temperatures. But I speak to them before every story. If they want to demonstrate falsity I want to hear it, and if they want to tell me about specific damage I would be doing then it want to hear that too. I get warnings about the espionage act and I assume that I'm more interesting than I used to be. And Google has warned me that they believe a state-sponsored hacker is attempting to compromise my computer... I assume that is more likely to be a foreign agency."

"Do I worry about doing harm and putting lives at risk? Of course I do. There are things in the documents I don't think should be published and there are things Snowden doesn't think should be published...

Gellman reportedly is living in New York, NY.

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Cryptome strongly disagrees with Gellman and, according to Gellman and Greenwald, allegedly the view of Snowden, on releasing only a few documents out of the thousands being withheld. This paternalism toward the public self-deputizes the document holders as de facto government officials and the elective secretkeeping supports what the spy agencies do to deliberately keep the public in the dark. The vaunted debate remains restricted to a tiny few with access to the documents, all of them exploiting their withholding for commercial purposes. This is an inexcusable travesty based on the special privileges of journalists working in concert with officials.

Cryptome, 21 January 2014: This is an FOI request to Snowden, Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, NY Times, for full release of Snowden's de facto declassified USG documents. Send to: Cryptome, 251 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024. Cost of digital reproduction on USBs will be paid. Public key for encrypting <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>: Fingerprint=5D02 335F 26A1 BD73 BFE3 F519 3755 7319 F9FC 4719

Barton Gellman Eyeball

Journalists Cory Doctorow (L) and Barton Gellman speak onstage at "Snowden 2.0: A Field Report from the NSA Archives" during the SXSW. (Travis P. Ball/Getty Images for SXSW) http://www.trbimg.com/img-531f12a2/turbine/chi-sxsw-march-10-bsi

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http://radaris.com/~Barton-Gellman/194998155 Awards Pulitzer prize, national reporting - Columbia university Pulitzer prize, national reporting (team entry) - Columbia university Goldsmith prize for investigative reporting - Harvard university Los angeles times book prize, nonfiction George polk award Henry luce prize - Time inc. Rhodes scholarship - The rhodes trust Overseas press club award - Opc of america Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Bronze Medallion (1999), SAIS-Novartis Prize for international reporting (2000), American Society of Newspaper Editors award for deadline writing (1995).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Gellman The son of Stuart Gellman of Tucson, Arizona, and Marcia Jacobs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lives with partner Dafna Linzer in New York City. A previous marriage to Tracy Ellen Sivitz ended in divorce in 2007.[35] He is the father of four children: Abigail, Michael, Lily, and Benjamin Gellman. 640 West End Avenue, New York, NY