Significance buried with poor headline, also could have been broken up into multiple stories. This is def a top 5 Snowden revelation, with the added bonus of a denial from a top official.
At least the way it's presented it appears as "nothing to see here." The main story is the guy who wants to join Talibans being monitored, including the conversations with his ex-partner who converted to Islam and who today understands that it was reasonable for such communication to be monitored.
Kind of anticlimax for the claimed "a four-month investigation by The Washington Post."
How could the article have been written to make the readers see it as "one of the top five?"
Significance buried with poor headline, also could have been broken up into multiple stories. This is def a top 5 Snowden revelation, with the added bonus of a denial from a top official.