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r721
>the documents were given to Jeremy Scahill, a reporter at The Intercept, who used the documents as part of a series of critical reports on how the military conducted drone strikes on foreign targets.

Here's that series: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

StavrosK
Is this another case of The Intercept failing abjectly to protect sources? AFAIK that's one of the reasons Laura Poitras quit/was fired.
boomboomsubban
I can't find anything stating how he was eventually caught, but the six year period between contact and arrest is a decent sign they did what they could to protect the source. Either way, they're hardly the villains here.
StavrosK
Certainly not, but they could be better at protecting sources.
jamie77444
Why would you put videos in the background?? I don't want to use my mobile data to load them.