Glenn Greenwald Like A Boss

[ljm2002]

62. Who the hell are you arguing with?

NO ONE claimed that Glenn Greenwald is "the arbiter of what is right". NO ONE claimed that he "makes our decisions for us".

He is presenting information. Apparently this revelation is: (a) not all that much -- we already knew this was going on; (b) legal anyway -- so what's the beef?; or (c) a big deal -- a huge security breach, harmful to national security, and a failure of all that is good and just, which we will avenge, with prejudice.

Anyway. For the sake of argument, let's say that Greenwald's actual motive is "to change the NSA". You say he'd need to convince the rest of us that it's the right thing to do. Well then, how, pray tell, would he go about doing that? Perhaps revealing to the public how massive the surveillance is? But that would mean... wait for it... why that would mean publishing things that the government would rather are kept secret.

Regardless of his motives, Greenwald is an investigative reporter and what he is doing is in the job description.

I'm telling you. If the Internet had been around when the Pentagon Papers happened, I wonder what the reaction of people would be. There would be a large contingent here on DU excoriating Ellsberg, and the papers who published the information, and probably any reporters who were intimately involved with the story. Because, you know, how dare one individual challenge our country's defense establishment in any way. Why he probably endangered lives. In any case, he violated his sworn oath to protect those secrets. What a bad guy. I heard he goes to a psychiatrist, too bad we can't send someone in to steal his records... oh wait.