Ed had root, but I don't think he took everything. Moreover, some of the news orgs were intimidated into destroying their copies both before and after the release started. I don't think the news orgs know everything.

It doesn't take away from your larger point, but we can't presume they know more than they've published. They probably do, but we don't know what they know and what they don't (either because it was omitted or destroyed).