| The administration directed all questions to John DeLong, NSA's director of compliance, who then proceeded to speak with Gellman at length--albeit with some pre-established conditions--about the internal audit given to the paper by Edward Snowden. DeLong, in the paper's words, "answered questions freely in a 90-minute interview," with the agreement that he could be quoted by name and title on at least some of his answers. But following the interview, and before the story went live, the White House stepped in and more or less redacted the entire interview. Instead, the administration offered a prepared statement to be attributed to DeLong--written remarks that the Post refused to run in its main story. |
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