The Washington Post Has Now Hedged Its Stunning Claim About Google, Facebook, Etc, Giving The Govern

[FarCenter]

The Washington Post Has Now Hedged Its Stunning Claim About Google, Facebook, Etc, Giving The Government Direct Access To Their Servers

And now, 24 hours later, after more denials and questions, the Post has made at least two important changes to its spying story.

First, the Post has eliminated the assertion that the technology companies "knowingly" participated in the government spying program.

Second, and more importantly, the Post has hedged its assertion that the companies have granted the government direct access to their servers.

The latter change is subtle, but important. In the first version of its story, the Post stated as a fact that the government had been given direct access to the companies' servers.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/washington-post-updates-spying-story-2013-6

[elleng]

1. Surprised???

'the Post has eliminated the assertion that the technology companies "knowingly" participated in the government spying program.

Second, and more importantly, the Post has hedged its assertion that the companies have granted the government direct access to their servers.'

[The Magistrate]

2. It Is Getting Hard, Sir, To Tell The Washington Post From The New York Post....

[FarCenter]

3. Interesting couple of reporters

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, Published: June 6 | Updated: Friday, June 7, 10:51 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Gellman

After 21 years on the staff of The Washington Post,[1] Gellman resigned in February 2010 to concentrate on book and magazine writing.
He now holds positions as Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation,[2] Contributing Editor At Large of Time magazine,[3] and Lecturer and Author in Residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[4]

At Time, Gellman's work has included cover stories on extremist domestic militias,[5] on FBI Director Robert Mueller.[6] and on the early influences in the life of Republican Party Presidential Nominee, Mitt Romney. He also writes Time's CounterSpy blog[7] on digital privacy and security.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras

Laura Poitras is an American documentary film director and producer.[1]

On August 22, 2012 The New York Times published an Op-doc in a forum of short documentaries produced by independent filmmakers that was produced by Laura Poitras and entitled, The Program.[8] It is preliminary work that will be included in a documentary planned for release in 2013 as the final part of the trilogy. The documentary is based on interviews with William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the United States National Security Agency, who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design. He states that the program he worked on had been designed for foreign espionage, but was converted in 2001 to spying on citizens in the United States, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional and that led to their disclosures. The subject implies that the facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is a facility that is part of that domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that may be mined readily for intelligence without warrants. Poitras reports that on October 29, 2012 the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the constitutionality of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that were used to authorize the creation of such facilities and justify such actions.