FWIW: I don't think Pentagon Papers or Trump tax return maps to mass leaks. But this needs longer form./maybe later
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Replying to @zeynep @chrislhayes
PP was mass leak: many volumes. Analogy of Trump tax was it was possibly stolen. Snowden & Manning were mass leaks.
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Replying to @ggreenwald @chrislhayes
Pentagon Papers: mass leak of official documents—not email conversation hence little analogy. Tax return: one doc.
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FWIW; Ellsberg told me (as he told others) he wished he had leaked earlier and I believe that is correct.
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Neither singular documents, nor pre-internet mass leaks (content much more limited) map to current dilemma.
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Look: front page of WaPo. What a Huffpo blogger emailed *to* Podesta. How is this news now? 100 stories like this.pic.twitter.com/ZBPUmpZbzb
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During Wikileaks (absolutely false claim) of AKP leaks, same scenario. Journos reported emails TO gov't officials.
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Mass leaks of select targets: distract journalists with hard to resist tidbits; create confusion; destroy privacy.
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Just the presence of that constant targeted noise is a useful campaign tool.
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I have no claim to who did the hacks but firehose" method of censorship is real: http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html …
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Method increasingly used in many to silence dissent. (Doesn't matter if Russia hacked; not my point).
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