releasing this. nick, i just wonder from the campaign perspective which do you think i mean, having a big bunch of e-mails released two weeks before the iowa caucuses is probably not ideal. but the bulk release versus the steady rolling stream i guess i wonder what you think is mosted a most advantageous for hillary clinton to have released. i was thinking about it and the truth is if you do a big dump on a single day, it s actually awfully hard for the press, the reporters like jason and myself to kind of go through them, make the right connections, do follow-up reporting. so yeah if there are some really hot ones in there, it will make a bang. but it s often your only chance to really get a big story out of the e-mails. i think in a way, it serves the public s interest to have the rolling release, as soon as a batch is ready. you move on to the next one. because that way there s a chance to dig in a bit. it s not your only window.
snowden documents and has a reporting relationship with glenn greenwald. when it comes to specific stories about the specific collection programs, about specific targets, these aren t decided by me. these are decided by newspapers. you see the part of this and for a lay audience looking on, they know that this came from you. the bulk release to the journalists came from you. they are guessing that you had decisions to make within what you had access to, so then they hear you saying, i didn t put that out, the journalists did. right. that s a fair question. anyone can second guess my judgment. again, i m a human being. i could make mistakes. i could make the wrong call. but the reality is the situation determined that this needed to be told to the public. to your knowledge, there is nothing in what you have handed over to the journalists materially damaging or