Because this leak wasn't a "publish everything at once" leak. Snowden wanted the journalists to decide what to release, and that requires work, which takes time.
Because this leak wasn't a "publish everything at once" leak. Snowden wanted the journalists to decide what to release, and that requires work, which takes time.
It's like they're trying to release them just slowly enough so that public outrage never quite reaches critical mass. They can still trickle all they want, but I would appreciate it if they released these stories a bit more regularly and closer together.
That's a good way to generate a 'new normal'. I imagine there's pros/cons of that, but one of the biggest is probably not to be forgotten.
I'll contend that if the initial revelations weren't enough to reach critical mass, no rate will. The collective mass of self-serious commentators and politicians triangulate towards citizen apathy.
FFS we now know without a doubt we tortured people and it didn't reach critical mass. What happened? No war crimes trails, just some blowhards on TV defending the practice to this day.
When Greenwald started publishing, he said something to the effect of "there's enough publishable material here for the next 10 years or so". Still a long way to go, I guess.