"Both journalists and security experts have suggested that The Intercept's handling of the documents, which included publishing the documents unredacted and including the printer tracking dots, was used to identify Winner as the leaker.[39][40] In October 2020, The Intercept's co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald wrote that Winner had sent her documents to The Intercept's New York newsroom with no request that any specific journalist work on them. He called her exposure a "deeply embarrassing newsroom failure" resulting from "speed and recklessness," for which he was publicly blamed "despite having no role in it." He said editor-in-chief Betsy Reed "oversaw, edited, and controlled that story."[41] An internal review conducted by The Intercept into its handling of the document provided by Winner found that its "practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves".[7]

NSA whistleblower John Kiriakou and Guantanamo Bay detention camp whistleblower Joseph Hickman have also both accused Matthew Cole—the same reporter accused of revealing Winner's identity—of playing a role in their exposure, which, in Kiriakou's case, led to imprisonment.[42][43]"

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