Is there a second NSA leaker after Snowden?

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Glenn Greenwald, the journalist most closely associated to Snowden, said he suspects someone else has been involved in leaking out new documents, and other experts have backed up the claim.

The existence of a second leaker “seems clear at this point,” Greenwald wrote on Twitter over the weekend.

“The lack of sourcing to Snowden on this & that last [Der Spiegel] article seems petty telling,” he added, after German broadcasters reported that the NSA was tracking people searching for details about privacy software.

Neither the Der Spiegel article from December nor last week’s story, both of which were partly written by privacy advocate and security researcher Jacob Appelbaum, specifically mentioned that the information emanated from leaks by Snowden.

“That's particularly notable given that virtually every other article using Snowden documents - including der Spiegel - specifically identified him as the source,” Greenwald said in an email to The Hill on Monday.

Other people who have seen Snowden’s trove of documents have agreed that the documents revealed by German outlets seem to indicate a second source.

Bruce Schneier, a cryptologist and cybersecurity expert who has helped the Guardian review Snowden’s disclosures, said he did “not believe that this came from the Snowden documents.”

“I think there’s a second leaker out there,” he wrote in a blog post last week.

If true, it could add another headache for the NSA, which has struggled for more than a year to contain the fallout from Snowden’s revelations. Defenders of the NSA say that the disclosures have hurt U.S. security and empowered terrorists and other enemies abroad.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/211465-is-there-a-second-nsa-leaker#ixzz36oyKrYdI


My comment - Is there a second NSA leaker? God, I hope so!

[riderinthestorm]

2. Well there's another NSA lie: that they've "fixed" things so no more Snowdens

I hope this person manages to stay free. I'm sure the NSA is massively hunting him/her.

Stay safe brave soul!

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5. NSA and lying, along with their apologists, who also seem to lie their asses off

re: Snowden and/or Greenwald, they all seem to go together!

[Autumn]

3. I want six or seven leakers. They can't all have boxes in their garage and love whats his face.

The more the better.

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4. Bullseye, the more the merrier!

[Aerows]

11. Amen - I'd like a thousand of them

It's a corrupt organization that usurps the 4th Amendment. This shit needs to be reined in, funds absolutely cut off, and people prosecuted.

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13. A thousand sounds good to me!

[BillZBubb]

6. I hope there is at least a second whistleblower.

It would be nice to know that more than one person working for the security state wants people to know how badly their freedoms are being abused.

Of course, if the second whistleblower exists and his/her name becomes public, expect the NSA groupies to show up en masse trying to make the issue about the whistleblower and not the NSA's abuse of power.

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7. Nailed it.

"if the second whistleblower exists and his/her name becomes public, expect the NSA groupies to show up en masse trying to make the issue about the whistleblower and not the NSA's abuse of power."

Standard procedure from that crowd. Character assassination is all they have, they don't dare debate the issue at this point.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

[Aerows]

9. I hope so

They've already proven themselves to be a corrupt organization, I hope we have a thousand leakers.

Lying before Congress is a crime, and the least of what the NSA has done.

What they are doing is against the law and against the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Two, three, many Snowdens.

With apologies to Che Guevara.

[Aerows]

12. As many as it takes

The NSA needs to be defunded along with its contractors.