WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

Three of thefour media outlets thatreceived and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden —The Guardian,the New York Times, and The Intercept–– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblowerto return to the U.S. with no charges. That’s the normalcourse for a news organization, which owes its sources duties of protection, and which — by virtue of accepting the source’s materials and then publishing them — implicitly declares the source’s inf...