ABC Brass Nixed Barbara Walters’ Pick of Edward Snowden as Year’s Most Fascinating Person

By Marianne Garvey, Brian Niemietz and Lachlan Cartwright

It’s a leak Barbara Walters doesn’t want you to know about.

The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the top of her list of 10 most fascinating people of the year — but in the end was overruled by network brass, a source told Confidenti@l.