Topic: SECURITY - on July 30, 2016 at 5:56:00 PM CEST
Snowden vs Assange
What’s gotten into Edward Snowden? The National Security Agency leaker is criticizing his fellow disseminaters of classified information at WikiLeaks, tweeting that “their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake” and suggesting that some truly damaging material shouldn’t be leaked indiscriminately to the public. Given Snowden’s past collaboration with the group, his words are being treated as surprising by some in the press — evidence of dissension within the largely unified ranks of international transparency crusaders. “Even Edward Snowden disagrees with WikiLeaks,” marvels Fast Company. “Is WikiLeaks alienating its friends,” asks Bloomberg, calling the former NSA contractor “a natural ally … if there’s ever been one.”
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