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Is it known what story he was pursuing?

• LoganCale 13y ago
  The subject of his email was "FBI Investigation, re: NSA". Don't know if the investigation is the same as his big story, however.
  • TechNewb 13y ago
    Wonder if his notes could be found, I imagine they would have been cloud backed.
    • dllthomas 13y ago
      "I imagine they would have been cloud backed." Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out.
    • TechNewb 13y ago
      @dllthomas "Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out." Right. Yet to our knowledge the NSA does not have delete privileges to the data centers, meaning that copies of his notes most likely still survive on either local or cloud based storage.
      • jlgaddis 13y ago
        Depends on whether his e-mail was hosted by Google or not. ;)
      • woah 13y ago
        Yet to our knowledge, the NSA doesn't have read access... until they did a few weeks ago.
    • sitkack 13y ago
      Ask the NSA for a copy?
      • flyinRyan 13y ago
        I wouldn't do that unless you have a really old car with no electronics to drive.
• snowwrestler 13y ago
  I believe Ben Smith said it was about Barrett Brown.