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"The U.S. government has confirmed a new leak of classified information, following revelations that the number of people on the terrorist watch list has grown under President Barack Obama, according to a report.\nCNN's Evan Perez reported that U.S. officials had confirmed that the information contained in reports about the terrorist watch list had not come from Edward Snowden but from a new leak.\nThe revelations about the terrorist watch list was first published by the Associated Press. The Intercept had initially been passed the information. But when they ran it by government officials for comment, the officials passed the information on to the AP. \nNational security stories are routinely shown to officials before publication to ensure accuracy and to make sure that publication does not put Americans at risk. Stories are passed on to officials with the tacit agreement that the information won't be shared with other news outlets.\nAfter the AP broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, who helped found the Intercept, expressed his displeasure on Twitter and noted that the disclosure could change its relationship with the government.\n\nRead how the US Government tried to feed (i.e. steal) the scoop of @jeremyscahill &amp; @rdevro to AP &amp; @esullivanap   http://t.co/Di4WRQqCRb\n\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 5, 2014\n\n\nSorry - then there's no obligation requiring that government comment be sought before publishing https://t.co/XWF78WbBlt\n\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 5, 2014\n\nThe Intercept then contacted the National Counterterrorism Center to voice frustration over the government's conduct to which an official responded, \"that was our bad,\" according to the Huffington Post.\n\"Because both the AP and First Look Media were working on a similar story, both news organizations should have been provided the same information simultaneously, which did not happen, and which was our mistake,\" a National Counterterrorism Center spokesperson said in a statement provided to Mashable. \nJohn Cook, editor in chief of the Intercept, reportedly told a U.S. government official that upcoming stories would be provided for review only 30 minutes before publishing. \nThe Intercept was founded by Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald with the stated goal of publishing more stories about the Edward Snowden leaks and other topics regarding national security.\nCNN's media reporter Brian Stelter suggested in a tweet that there had been earlier indications that the Intercept was working with a new leak.\n\nSeems clear at this point RT @ageis @vruz Bruce Schneier: \"I think there's a second [NSA] leaker out there.\" https://t.co/0iCULZWf0L\n\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 4, 2014\n\nThe Intercept and numerous government agencies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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