Greenwald slams Obama on the Reality Winner arrest

[Goprox]

[irisblue]

1. Ummm what? nt

[Oneironaut]

19. I know - Very bizarre...

[sharedvalues]

2. Schinder said a Sanders DOJ would have done it too

Let's get DJT and the traitors and plutocrats in the GOP out.

Then we can work on discussing Ms. Winner's penalty. I suspect she'll serve about a year total.
She made some mistakes-- should have redacted a lot more before sending to the media. But it seems she's in the Ellsberg class of patriotic Americans concerned about what the public knows. Civil disobedience like that can carry some penalty.

[Persisted]

6. The Sessions DOJ is too stupid to offer a plea.

I think she should go for straight jury nullification, followed by throwing herself on the mercy of a sentencing recommendation.

[brush]

3. Slimey fucks. After they blew her cover now they attack O who is long gone.

Greenwald is still the same a-hole and user he's always been.

Snowden, stranded in Russia while Greenwald parlayed his leaks to a media empire, knows and now Winner knows.

What's he gonna try to get out of exposing Winner?

[Scoopster]

4. Yeah ummm.

Greenwald didn't even say it. He retweeted someone who did. I may not like the guy for his actions but I won't play that game where we put words in his mouth, okay?

And this isn't even a slam. If someone steals docs from an agency, that person is a criminal and the DOJ will investigate them no matter who the president is.

[joeybee12]

10. Yeah, but he agree with it, typical propaganda

Try and change the subject from Trump to Obama

[Goprox]

12. Your defense of Greenwald is based on weak points

You suggested that every possible DOJ would have prosecuted Winner. But you failed to state whether all DOJ's would have engaged in a "war on leaks".

Greenwald obviously had a negative opinion on Obama's hypothetical reaction to this leak. You can pretend that Greenwald's view of Obama was neutral, but nobody in this thread had so far echoed your benign view of Obama - hater Glenn Greenwald.

Secondly, Greenwald has often reacted to Trump's screwups with an "Obama sucks" type of comment.

Thirdly, you pretend that Greenwald gets a pass because this was a retweet rather than an original tweet.

Nobody here would say that Greenwald retweeted that tweet because he disagreed with it.

[Persisted]

15. GG has to keep the focus on Obama, off Snowden.

There's a reason that the Sessions DOJ is pursuing this leaker, and not Snowden.

[Scoopster]

20. Defense of Greenwald?

I'm doing no such thing. I'm saying that if you're gonna accuse someone of something then they should have actually DONE IT. That's not a fucking pass. It's putting the responsibility for a statement where it belongs.

[kcr]

22. Pointing out that someone retweeted something and commenting on that choice

isn't putting words in their mouth. It's not like there's a random generator logarithm at work, here. Re-tweets are a choice. Why do you think that choice isn't worthy of commentary or criticism?

[Persisted]

5. GG can always be her attorney, right? nt

[Lee-Lee]

7. Any DOJ would have done it.

Of course.

I don't see how that's a slam.

Since this report originated under the Obama administration and Obama and his people elected to not make it public when they announced sanctions on Russia for doing what the report details obviously they felt it needed to be kept classified.

[joeybee12]

11. It's classic propaganda, change the focus nt

[Goprox]

21. Greenwald disagrees with the charges

But you pretend that Greenwald is simply telling us that Obama would have done the right thing.

[ExciteBike66]

8. Why not opine on whether the Truman admin would have arrested her,

it has the same amount of relevance as the imagined actions of the Obama admin...

[Blue_Tires]

9. Who cares? Greenwald is a piece of shit anyway

as I have illustrated here on an almost daily basis

[DetlefK]

13. See? Both sides do it. Real Republicans and imaginary Democrats are equally bad.

[Demsrule86]

14. You did it Greenwald for your Russian buddies.

[PubliusEnigma]

16. Greenwald is shit.

[stonecutter357]

17. Russian stoog did what?

[mountain grammy]

18. Greenwald? Bueler? Anybody?

talking to mother Russia.

[SaschaHM]

23. ? I saw multiple journalists retweet this and/or say something to a similar effect.

Any DOJ would have arrested Winner for this and I say that as someone who can't stand Glenn Greenwald.

The original tweeter, Brad Heath, seems to be an even tempered guy. He tweets about court cases and things concerning the misdeeds and general craziness of the Trump administration. I doubt this was a slam on Obama. If anything, this was a rebuff to the whole "Trump is finally going to war w/ leakers" hysteria that erupted as soon as the arrest was announced. This , as pointed out by Heath, is just business as usual for DoJs.

[Goprox]

24. Tell me which journalists retweeted it

journalists who share Greenwald's Russophilia?

[SaschaHM]

26. How is it Russophilia to point out the the Obama administration like most others before him..

had a mixed record on leakers/whistleblowers when refer to current events for comparison? Greenwald is shit, but just because he "retweets" something doesn't automatically invalidate the original point of the tweet, no matter how Greenwald tries to portray it.

You're seeing red because something showed up on Greenwald's page.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Greenwald got a damning leak on Russia interference and the leaker was caught in an hour

What does that tell you about Glenn Greenwald?

RUSSIAN AGENT.

[DeltaLitProf]

27. Never mind that . . .

. . . someone at Greenwald's site, The Intercept, voluntarily provided the document to the government. Surely it's possible to confirm the truth of the document without showing it to the government.

Greenwald and crew behaved as rank amateurs with material their source entrusted to them. They bungled their responsibility to protect her. If I were a whistleblower, I'd NEVER EVER trust Greenwald with my information.

And given Greenwald's propensity to protect Putin, he'd have every motivation to out a source leaking classified info about Russia's misbehavior.