Greenwald calls USA "lawless, rogue empire" in defense of Snowden [View all]

[uhnope]

And he still wants to be considered an objective journalist? It's obvious Greenwald loathes this country and our president.

It's also really funny how he is now Snowden's PR man, instead of a journalist, talking about how Snowden is too smart to possibly leak any data from his various laptops he's carting around the dictatorships he's so fond of. And how does Greenwald know, sitting in England, what Snowden did in China or Russia?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-usa-security-snowden-greenwald-idUSBRE96901G20130710

Snowden's challenge, he added, is "figuring out how to get to the country that has offered him asylum" despite the efforts of the United States, which Greenwald characterized as "the rogue, lawless empire that has proven itself willing to engage in rogue behavior to prevent him physically from getting there."

Greenwald dismissed suggestions that Snowden's passage through China and Russia had given authorities in either country the opportunity to seize the intelligence in his possession. "He gave no information of any kind to the Chinese government or the Russian government," Greenwald said.

Media reports have said Snowden is traveling with numerous laptop computers but Greenwald said the former contractor is not foolish enough to store information where it could be easily seized.

"There are all sorts of smarter and safer ways for someone who knows what they're doing - and he knows what he's doing - to store and carry large amounts of data."