How Snowden orchestrated a blockbuster story: NYT ticktock on NSA Prism leaks
Xeni Jardin
In the New York Times, Charlie Savage and Mark Mazzetti explain how Edward J. Snowden instructed three journalists, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, to fly to Hong Kong about 12 days ago to “visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel. If all seemed well, the source would walk past holding a Rubik’s Cube.”
They followed his directions, and encountered a man with a Rubik’s Cube. That man was Snowden.
In related news, NYT columnist David Brooks is an idiot: “He betrayed our privacy,” Brooks writes about the man who leaked evidence of the NSA’s secret and sweeping surveillance program. You have got to be kidding me.
