by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News:
When the New York Times wonders why they went from ‘the paper of record’ to BuzzFeed in a suit, they can look no further than this article on whistleblowers written by ‘Diplomatic correspondent’ Michael Crowley – which for 12 hours, despite undergoing a full editorial process, contained major fabrications about whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 exposed vast domestic and international spying operations run by the NSA and other organizations.
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For starters, Crowley wrote that Snowden “handed them off to the website WikiLeaks for publication,” which is a complete lie. Snowden in fact gave the documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald when he was with The Guardian, and the Washington Post – where they went through the editorial process.
Second, Crowley wrote that a disclosure that the NSA was spying on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone came from the Snowden archive – another total lie. Both of these lies could have been debunked with a 10 second look at Wikipedia. In reality, the Merkel findings were the result of a 2015 internal investigation in the Danish Defense Intelligence Service into the NSA’s role in the partnership, and broken by Reuters.
Holy shit: this NYT news article by @michaelcrowley has 2 gigantic, glaring factual errors in the first 3 paragraphs:
1) Snowden didn’t give the archive to WikiLeaks for publication, but rather to me and Laura Poitras.
2) The Merkel story didn’t come from the Snowden archive: https://t.co/NV8Oj3l0ty pic.twitter.com/9beBloZQZN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023
As Greenwald notes, “This story was published by the NYT 12 hours ago. Numerous top editors who oversaw publication of our reporting — then-Guardian-editor-in-chief @janinegibson and Intercept’s @MargotWilliams — quickly corrected them, but the paper ignored it.”
