Let's talk about Glenn Greenwald

[sabrina 1]

148. You are clearly not familiar with Greenwald's writing. This description of him, as being 'emotional'

could not be further from the truth. If anything, he has been accused of being the opposite. Even by people who do not often agree with him. When he writes about issues he writes like a lawyer. Far from being emotional he is focused on facts and backs up his every contention with case law where possible.

When he is responding to screaming, emotional attacks on him, and I'm mostly accustomed to those attacks coming from the Right, he may appear to be emotional since in those posts he is addressing personal issues. But in all of the time I have been reading him, 'emotional' is the last thing I would call his writing. 'Passionate' would be a better word, he is passionate about civil rights issues and to me and to all of the Democrats who became familiar with him during the Bush years, that was one of his most admirable traits. Civil Rights after all, deserve passionate defenders.

What I find odd is that throughout the Bush years Greenwald was one of the most respected writers on the Left. He has not changed his positions one bit on Civil Rights issues and the Constitution. It was on sites like this that I discovered him. But now, while he has not changed, something has. Can you explain that? Can you, eg, point out one issue that he is now talking about that his position was different on during the Bush years when we on the left could not wait for his next column trashing Bush for his shredding of the Constitution.