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Thank you for clarifying, Mike.

Deciding what is responsible is likely a coordinated effort. I think the same argument applies. Do we think someone might be being irresponsible here? Sensationalism, or real problem?

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Yeah, I'm not too knowledgeable about the whole situtation, but I wish Snowden had leaked the documents to the public. It sucks having to trust the press. Assumedly if Snowden didn't like how they were handling it he'd step in in some way, though.

If he did, they'd just yell that he put everyone in life-threatening danger, like they did with Manning and also Wikileaks. I guess he wanted to avoid that level of accusations, although people like Mike Rogers still say that about him anyway:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131223/02311625673/rep-mi...

A post by Greenwald on the subject of "dump it all" vs. "vet and dribble":

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponse...

By journalists. This also include anyone they might hire/recruit to help them in identifying what is valuable.

For example, Bruce Schneier helped to make the news articles around the tor network by going through the NSA documents.

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