The Mysterious Missing Slides from the NSA Leaked Presentation

Instead, The Guardian and The Washington Post published only five
of the slides.

Apparently, the legal or national security implications of publishing the
remaining slides may have dissuaded the newspapers’ editors from going all in
on the major story.

“If you saw all the slides you wouldn’t publish them,” the Post’s Barton
Gellman posted on Twitter, adding in a second tweet: “I know a few absolutists,
but most people would want to defer judgment if they didn’t know the full
contents.”

“I’m not going to discuss our legal advice with you,” Glenn Greenwald of The
Guardian tweeted in response to a message from Kim Zetter at Wired,
“but we’re not publishing NSA tech methods.”

Snowden’s preference was for the entire presentation to be published, according
to Wired’s Kevin Poulsen.

That could still happen…if WikiLeaks gets a hold of the PPT slides.
Julian Assange, the whistleblowing website’s founder, has said he’s had
“indirect communication” with Snowden. He also acknowledged Snowden’s original
intent, which might indicate what WikiLeaks would do with the information.

“Snowden demanded all 41 pages of PRISM document be published but neither WaPo
nor Guardian had the courage,” Assange tweeted.

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Posted By Charleston Voice to Charleston
Voice at 6/12/2013 06:46:00 PM