Who actually now "owns" the data Snowden passed to the whole wide world? Is the "owner" now what some are calling "NewCo", or is it one or more natural person(s) such as Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, Liliana Segura, Dan Froomkin, Eric Bates, Jay Rosen or someone else? If corporations are persons as many people believe was the point of SCOTUS's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n - 08-205 (2010), then does the omidyargroup or newconews "own" the data? Is the data about NSA, its contractors' and partners' surveillance of everyone now privatized, monetized, commodified?
Or does the United States own the data we have come to associate with the person Snowden (who is definitely not a monster).
I am amazed that so few Kossacks voice themselves on this issue. What is your pov or opinion? There are some works you may want to consider that are inside dKos such as "What's Happenin'? ☮ ♥ ☺12.7.13" and the diary today entitled "Koch Libertarian Glenn Greenwald's NSA hypocrisy(Paypal / Omidyar)". There are also a few other pieces of journalism that may help surface some serious discussion.
Sibel Edmonds has worked the last few days on these stories in her site on 12-11-13, and in her publication of the statement William Binney made. Ms. Edmonds yesterday raised some questions to ponder and revealed some information that I think is important to understand in another work of hers on Boiling Frogs Post. In another post Boiling Frogs Post story she says that people who want to extend the benefit of doubt to Greenwald can do some things to help clarify where the documents passed to him are now.
A diarist wrote a supportive piece in Daily Kos about Greenwald on 1-30-13 but his personal history is not the issue I wish we discuss.
I want to know what is the sense of the community on whether the documents Snowden handled and passed to Poitras and Greenwald are the property of someone, a private group or the common people of the United States. Should a business concern be permitted to censor and withhold data that a former Bureau of Investigative Journalism staffer (Afghan war logs and other projects), Sarah Harrison, and a whistleblower, Snowden, worked with alertness, patience, endurance and courage to release for the good of us (all)?