![]() ![]() "It took a lot of convincing for him, just as it took a lot of convincing for me that he was for real." "He thought that The Washington Post would be afraid to publish or would bow down to government pressure," Gellman says. Gellman says initially Snowden was skeptical of him. surveillance programs.īarton Gellman, formerly of The Washington Post, was one of three journalists - including filmmaker Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian - with whom Snowden chose to share the documents. In 2013, Edward Snowden, a contractor with the National Security Agency, rocked the world when he leaked thousands of classified documents about U.S. ![]() ![]() National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, shown broadcasting from Moscow in 2014, says he acted as a whistleblower when he shared classified documents with journalist Barton Gellman. ![]()
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