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🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com. |
0:13.3 | Now I'm James Uppinplato from MediaMonarchy.com. creepy Uncle Joe has a Ukraine problem. |
0:19.0 | We got that story, plus chilling kill lists, but first, silencing the whistle. |
0:23.9 | The Intercept shutters, Snowden Archive, citing costs. |
0:27.6 | On March 13th, the report in The Daily Beast revealed that the New York-based outlet, |
0:32.0 | The Intercept, would be shutting down its archive with the trove of government documents |
0:36.3 | entrusted to a handful of journalists, |
0:38.3 | including Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras by whistleblower Edward Snowden. |
0:44.7 | However, that account did not include the role of Greenwald as well as Jeremy Scahill, another Intercept co-founder, |
0:51.5 | in the controversial decision to shutter thisder this Snowden Archive, |
0:54.7 | according to a timeline of events by Poitris that was shared and published by |
0:58.7 | journalist and former Intercept columnist Barrett Brown. |
1:02.1 | Both Scaill and Greenwald were intimately involved in the decision to close the Snowden |
1:07.0 | archive. |
1:07.4 | While other outlets, such as the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post, and the New York |
1:12.6 | Times also possess much, though not all of the archive, the intercept was the only outlet with the |
1:18.9 | full archive that had been continued to publish, you know, continue to publish the documents |
1:24.0 | at a very slow pace in the last recent years. In total, fewer than 10% of the |
1:30.3 | Snowden documents have been published since 2013. Thus, the closing of the publication Snowden |
1:36.0 | archive will likely mean the end of any future publications unless Greenwald's promise of finding |
1:40.8 | the right partner that has the funds to robustly publish is fulfilled. |
1:45.7 | Notably, Edward Snowden, who was, if you don't recall, granted asylum in Russia after going |
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