Cry Me A River!!!: Bob Woodward: Edward Snowden Should Have Come To Me Instead

[kpete]

Bob Woodward: Edward Snowden Should Have Come To Me Instead

Edward Snowden may have helped blow the lid on the NSA's secret surveillance programs, but Bob Woodward has one complaint: that Snowden should have come to him with the leaks.

"I wish [Snowden] had come to me instead of others, particularly The Guardian,” Woodward told King in an interview that airs Thursday on Hulu. "I would have said to him ‘let’s not reveal who you are. Let’s make you a protected source and give me time with this data and let’s sort it out and present it in a coherent way.'"

Woodward didn't say why he felt so "particular" about the Guardian's having obtained the Snowden documents, or how he would but he might have had a hard time convincing the whistleblower to be his new Deep Throat. Snowden has said in the past that he always intended to reveal himself as the source of the leaks.

Ironically, Woodward's newspaper, the Washington Post, has been a chief recipient of Snowden's leaks — but his colleague Barton Gellman has led the paper's coverage, leaving Woodward completely on the sidelines.

MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/bob-woodward-edward-snowden-guardian_n_4311354.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

QOTD: Bob Woodward
by digby

He does have a reputation for protecting his sources --- but then his sources are all very high level government officials who are leaking to him to advance an agenda. It's unsurprising that someone in Snowden's position might not think Bob Woodward (or one of the dozens of other journalists who specialize in publishing "authorized leaks&quot would be the best person to approach.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/qotd-bob-woodward.html

[grasswire]

1. oh sure

Now, Carl Bernstein might have some credibility to make such an offer.

Woodward? No.

[Phlem]

2. OK, he just moved up to sleazy, greasy,

creepy guy. Ick.

-p

[Blue_Tires]

3. It is a continually ongoing story...

And despite what is commonly believed, Snowden/Greenwald do *not* have sole ownership of the story nor do they have a monopoly on all the available NSA information...

If Woodward is so inclined, he could cultivate some inside sources, do his own research, and start writing his own stories -- You know; the way things were done in the old days...(or at the bare minimum he could assist the team at the WaPo with their coverage instead of complaining...)

[Marr]

5. Exactly-- which sort of explains why Snowden didn't go to Bob Woodward. /nt

[fadedrose]

4. I think I would trust Snowden's judgment

in a case where writers are involved. He does spying after all, and if he don't know, nobody knows who to trust.

[jakeXT]

6. Sad Bob Woodward Would Have Journalismed Edward Snowden Way Better Than That Dumb Glenn Greenwald

Superhero Videogame Star and onetime journalist Bob Woodward has a sad that Edward Snowden talked to other journalists instead of to Legendary Journalist Bob Woodward. Not for his own sake, of course, but for the sake of Journamalism and Standards:

Read more at http://wonkette.com/534856/sad-bob-woodward-would-have-journalismed-edward-snowden-way-better-than-that-dumb-glenn-greenwald