Internet anti-Greenwald agitators are playing some folks for Fools [View all]

[cthulu2016]

It is sad that anyone would fall for this sort of nihilistic misuse of other human beings, but it appears that there is a thing going around the internet juxtaposing Glenn Greenwald saying he didn't know Snowden's name or employer until recently, and an earlier tweet where he said he had been involved with Snowden since February.

Amusingly, the internet sources presenting this prima faciae case of Greenwald being caught in a lie know that they (the internet folks) are lying by encouraging credulous readers to overlook the fact that in this age or miracles and wonder it is actually possible for people to communicate without conveying their name.

For instance, some people have been talking to Cthulu2016 for a long time on many topics, yet do not know my name or where I work.

OOOooooOoooo. Amazing.

Here. Read this. For real. There will be a quiz.

But Greenwald told me that when Snowden had initially contacted him, Snowden hadn’t even shared his name or where he worked — he’d simply said he had explosive documents that Greenwald (whose reporting on leak investigations and civil liberties abuses was already widely known) would want to see. At that stage, Greenwald said, their conversations only concerned how to set up an encryption system that Snowden wanted in order to facilitate private communication of documents with him. The system was not set up until several months later, Greenwald said.

It was only in May — and not before — that Snowden told him who he was, who he worked for (at that point he identified himself as affiliated with the NSA) and what sort of documents he had to share, Greenwald says. It wasn’t until June — when Greenwald visited Snowden in Hong Kong — that Snowden told him he worked specifically for Booz Allen, Greenwald adds.

“We had early conversations about setting up encryption, so we worked early on to set that up,” Greenwald says. “We didn’t work on any documents. I didn’t even know Edward Snowden’s name or where he worked until after he was in Hong Kong with the documents. Anyone who is claiming that somehow I worked with him to get those documents or helped him is just lying.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/06/24/glenn-greenwald-pushes-back-hard-on-latest-edward-snowden-revelations/

I said there would be a quiz. It's one question.

How intellectually dishonest would a person have to be to think that reposting a tweet of Greenwald saying he had been in touch with Snowden months ago would contradict Greenwald saying he learned Snowden's name only recently?