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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 · Film · documentary · 127 min
Directed by Alex Gibney
Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.
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I highly doubt it is. In the wikileaks movie ("We steal secrets") they publish a few excepts from the conversations that Manning had with Adrian Cuomo and s/he mentions it a lot. It hasn't really been a secret, but Manning has apparently decided to formally state it now.
OP seems to be issuing a blanket request that we slow down with any stories related to either Snowden or the NSA. If he's really only against frivolous reporting his subject line ought to have said "Please post good stories on the NSA and post them as frequently as possible" and then explained what he felt were good stories.
But even then I would object to drawing too sharp a distinction between Snowden's story and the NSA story. There's an integral relationship between the two, because how the US handles leaks and leakers has everything to do with the national debate on how the US gov handles secrecy in general.
Some reporting might boil over into frivolous details; I truly don't care what he eats and I think those details trivialize the story. But in terms of driving attention to relevant details, I think Snowden's story and the NSA surveillance story command attention symbiotically as opposed to being mutually exclusive. It's like the thesis advanced by Alex Gibney in his Wikileaks documentary We Steal Secrets: the allegations against Julian Assange and subsequent attempts at extradition probably had the effect of bringing much more attention to Wikileaks. Similarly here with Snowden.