Glenn Greenwald, journalist who helped Edward Snowden expose NSA spying, once was a lawyer who owed

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87. So his responses are:1)It was SO long ago. 2)A reporter "SOMEHOW" found some things - imagine THAT!1

3) He's led "a complicated and adult" life.

Just Replying to expand the post title, "Greenwald responds:", that might give the impression that he completely disposed of the reporting on him.

When GREENWALD was involved in some kind of flap during Campaign '12, the content of which I don't remember, I had no earthly idea who he was and when I posted a mild disagreement with whatever he had said I was totally flamed and called homophobic. Repeating, I knew nothing about him beyond the content of the then dispute and my two cents were totally minor and content-driven, yet the flaming was vociferous, the point being (moreso now) that there is some thinking, sometimes, that if somebody is a member of one of our coalition groups it means a total get-out-of-jail-free card. Nope, not for me: If a member of the Democratic party screws up, such as a politician taking cash or whatever, it's not a matter of his or her political label, it's their personal failing. I'm not comparing GREENWALD to the level of the politician-taking-cash, my point being NO Gold Card absolution based on being a Hispanic, Black, woman, union, Gay, whatever.

That said, when Bill CLINTON screwed up, putting his PERSONAL FAILINGS first in front of just WORKING ON OUR AGENDA, I both condemned his selfishness while also attacking the hypocritical Rethugs and their FAKE impeachment. My regret was the WASTE of all that energy we had to spend defending instead of on our agenda.