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"They hacked my devices before my eyes": a journalist faced with the siege of the best intelligence services

2020-11-29T15:32:02.400Z


Reporter Barton Gellman became the target of harassment from global news agencies because he had something everyone wanted: the Snowden file.


Journalist Barton Gellman, one of the recipients of the documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013.ROBIN DAVIS MILLER / Personal

It was June 2013 and a couple of weeks ago the Edward Snowden leak had been made public, the revelations about the mass surveillance of communications carried out by the US Government. First in the

Guardian

and the next day in the

Washington Post,

Snowden had leaked the documentation he extracted from the National Security Agency (NSA) to three journalists.

One of them was Barton Gellman, who had covered the Pentagon and the Department for years ...

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