The journalist behind stories about the National Security Agency's global spy program promised Monday that there are many more to come, including details about the United States spying on its own citizens.
Glenn Greenwald, an American reporter based in Brazil, spoke by video to a group of reporters from around the Americas gathered in Denver for a meeting of the Inter American Press Association. He said the upcoming reports will be as significant as the report he co-wrote in the French newspaper Le Monde about the NSA sweeping up millions of phone records in France in a month.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Greenwald: More NSA Spying Bombshells Coming
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Good, the state needs to be continue to be exposed
ReplyDeleteDude, if you're really in NY I'd suggest getting out of there before that commie fucker Bill DeBlasio gets elected. Who knows what the Red is going to do.
DeleteGreenwald needs a Pulitzer, a Nobel Peace and a Medal of Honor for exposing this shit. Manning and Snowden are heroes.
ReplyDeleteFitz
As Arthur Silber has pointed out, if Greenwald has information on criminal activity perpetrated by the U.S. government against the American people, then morally Greenwald really ought to get it ALL out there ASAP. And stop being a little control freak, handing out small samples at a time, like we are drooling animals who can't wait for the next dose. Greenwald is exhibiting symptoms of profiting from his control at the expense of knowledge and the truth.
ReplyDeleteGasp! Greenwald is trying to profit from his expenditure of labor!! [clutches pearls, faints]
DeleteGreenwald is doing his job, which is fact checking and confirming the details, as best he can, for every story that is published. This takes time and effort.
DeleteHe's also followed Manning and Wikileaks very closely, and knows that if he puts a ton of info out all at once it will be much easier to turn the narrative to "dumping" classified documents, at which point people can much more easily ignore the content of those documents as they scream for someone's head.
Tons and tons of people still act like there was nothing of substance in any of the docs from Manning.
Anyway, I feel like the worst things came out first - the recent stories have been just more supporting evidence of the overall horrible operations of the no such agency.
Also, it's fun to see them deny things, and then have a story come out 3 days later showing that they just lied, again, to everyone.
Actually he plainly stated early on that this would be the general strategy for the exposure team (greenwald, poitras, snowden) - as it would force the establishment powers to respond to each story in turn, giving them the option of either revealing the truth from the source, or twisting themselves into a web of fraudulent explanations. The latter is what we have seen, and as a result the strategy has proven to be much more damaging than if they had just spit all the material out at once. Another byproduct of this strategy? The overall context of these stories has remained prevalent in the news for much longer than it would have if everything was dumped at once, and much more difficult to silence via character assassination of Snowden (which we saw at the outset) and through distraction.
DeletePlus, consider that we are talking thousands upon thousands of pages of documents that Greenwald (with worker bees, of course) is reading through as a responsible journalist should with sensitive information.
They won't stop anyway. If he releases it all at once the media can sweep it under the rug as they always do. A series of different articles that stretch out for months is different, and much tougher to censor. Just look at how quickly the media stopped talking about Obama spying on the ap or James Rosen once those stories ran for a couple days. Or how the NSA story he broke about Israel being given all raw NSA data including on us politicians that I didn't see talked about anywhere in mainstream media other than one la times article.
DeleteDemosthenes wrote: "Plus, consider that we are talking thousands upon thousands of pages of documents that Greenwald (with worker bees, of course) is reading through as a responsible journalist should with sensitive information"
DeleteWhat is "sensitive" information? Sensitive to whom? To us? The Government? The national security apparatus' little "secrets"? And what defines a "responsible" journalist? No, as Manning said, correctly, the information is all public domain, and let the public see it all now. Let the PEOPLE look through it and decide what is "important" or "sensitive" and what is not. The people do not need some elitist government official, or some elites of the "intelligentsia," or the high-and-mighty journalist "authorities" to decide for the rest of us what we should or should not see, especially when the material in question has nothing to do with "national security," despite what the State-lickers tell us.
And Danger Pioneer: I don't mean "profiting" from Greenwald's making a living from the work he's doing, I mean profiting from his controlled release of material, as in delaying its release to bring in as many readers as possible who are anticipating their gradual fix of juicy stuff.
Why don't YOU go do it, instead of making demands on Greenwald you have no right to make? You have a right to get this info from the state, but you have no right to get it from Greenwald in any way, shape or form. You should be grateful he is willing to risk becoming a total pariah for providing this invaluable service virtually no other journalist is willing to provide. Three people (Snowden, Manning, Assange) are in jail or on the run from the American state, and you have the nerve to make demands on how Greenwald does his job?
DeleteSome nerve, keyboard-hero.
Anonymous 9:55 wrote: "If he releases it all at once the media can sweep it under the rug as they always do"
ReplyDeleteYeah, like they did with the WikiLeaks dumps.
The release of the documents is a game of Reafpolitik. Hats off to Greenwald as he is playing the game supremely so far making it hard for the vested MSM to sweep under the rug or defame. I'm sure that the media in Brazil and France won't be sweeping the matter under the rug and down the memory hole. Wait until the docs come out about Putin being bugged. I don't think he will let it go unnoticed or unused as political leverage against the criminals in DC. Especially if a few juicy tidbits get released.
ReplyDeleteGo Glen go!
As Edward Snoden said, the truth is coming out and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
PS. The Wikileaks film isn't that bad. Sure Assange gets painted in a less than flattering way but setting that aside, we still get see that the real enemy is corrupt people in high places. And for that reason alone I recommend "The Fifth Estate".