Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Highlight

my role on the first Snowden story, the one revealing the ongoing NSA collection in bulk of purely domestic phone metadata, was to call up Verizon (the subject of an order from the secret FISA Court contained in the Snowden trove) and the White House for comment. This would be how both entities would learn that any NSA document was in our possession, and that we were about to publish journalism about it. The questions and requests I put to them were the subject of intense coordination within our team, as was the timing of when I would reach out. That timing, not long ahead of the stated deadline for response, was meant to convey that we would not be dissuaded from publishing.