Snowden’s coordination with journalists and Greenwald prior to the 2013 leaks
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The passage outlines Snowden’s early communications with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, suggesting a pre‑planned media strategy and hinting at possible undisclosed contacts within the intelligence Snowden emailed Greenwald on Dec 1, 2012 after Greenwald’s 2012 speech was posted online. Snowden described himself as a “senior government employee in the intelligence community,” with spec Greenwal
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