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Investigation into this leak proceeded. they have this list of like a half dozen people they know have accessed this document, they go down that list looking for someone who's accessed the document, who also appears to have been in touch with this news organization, with the intercept. by that process, they quickly narrow it down to one nsa contractor working in the state of georgia, named reality lee winner. she was the only one of the six who access -- who had both access to the document and been in touch with the intercept. then they go down a second line of approach. it says in the crimina...

Like you get a crease from folding something. there's a crease that is visually evident on the document itself that was a clue to the fbi that whoever took this document off of the nsa had printed it, had printed the panel and folded it and carried it out of the nsa office by hand. and then there was another clue -- and this is where the story gets a little bit crazy. most color printers, maybe even all of them, i don't know, they apparently leave behind when they print, right, when they print out a piece of paper from a commuter, when they present they leave behind a fingerprint on every shee...

The fbi doesn't mention the printer dots in the charging document in this case. but once the intercept published this document online, for people who understand forensic tracking of documents and the dangers of leaking documents, those little yellow dots were a thing to worry about. they were there to be read by a trained observer on that document that the intercept published online. okay? so now let me show you how this worked for us. this is the nsa document published by the intercept. you see the little dots? you see the little dots in that specific pattern in relation to that piece of the ...

Remembered less, i think, for the content of the story, and more for what happened immediately after they published it. because immediately after they published it, we learned that there was an arrest. we got a first heads-up about that intercept story just before 4:00 p.m. on june 5th. an hour later, at 5:00 p.m. sharp june 5th, the justice department said they had already arrested the person who allegedly leaked that top-secret document to the intercept. this is a pending federal case now against that nsa contractor. it's not resolved at all. but from the criminal complaint the government fi...

And it tells you which exact printer was used to print out that page. tells you the model number, tells you the serial number and tells you exactly which time and date that printing happened. now it may be that the fbi didn't have to use those little yellow printer dots to track down their suspect. the fbi doesn't mention the printer dots in their charges document in this case. but once the sper septembintercd this document, for people who understand the forensic tracking of documentings, those yellow dots were an obvious thing to worry about. they were there to be read by a trained observer o...