How Much Did The Intercept Contribute to the Outing of Its Source?

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Before The Intercept had even published its report, written by Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Sam Biddle and Ryan Grim, detailing Russian government cyberattacks on government officials during the 2016 election, the FBI had arrested the publication’s alleged source, Reality Leigh Winner.

The Department of Justice announcement of the arrest came later, on Monday, not long after The Intercept published its story, taking attention away from the story itself and onto The Intercept, who some blamed in part for its role in inadvertently helping the unnamed “Intelligence Community Agency,” as it was described in the affidavit, to link the document received by The Intercept to Winner, a contractor working at the NSA.

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