To: glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com
hi.
i
was watching some news reports on the large amounts of personal
communication in the snowden leak, and a thought crossed my mind. now,
before i start i want to point out that i'm aware of the invasiveness of
my suggestion and just leave it at that.
a lot of
people have noticed that this leak didn't get the reaction that was
maybe hoped for - that the public forgot about it at the end of the news
cycle. i think people just have a hard time taking the abstract down
into the concrete. i think what i'm going to suggest might help in
generating a reaction by making the issue more relatable.
so,
you apparently have huge amounts of communication between individuals.
perhaps this information could be worked into a novel, with a fictional
narrative worked out to connect the passages together. now, obviously
this suggestion necessitates that personal information is removed - that
the communication is published without context. but, i think this has
the potential of clearly demonstrating what the government is
collecting. and i think it's interesting as an idea in itself.
i
get why this is an idea that you're likely to react poorly to. but, i'd
just ask that you think it over a bit, and the possibilities of what
could come out of taking a project like this on. i'd be willing to
volunteer in constructing the narrative, in writing the novel, although i
understand why you can't just send me raw data of this sort and let me
strip out the context.
j