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Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts) Sat Jul 13, 2013, 04:44 PM Jul 2013

What Greenwald said vs Reuters summary of what he said: [View all]

Last edited Sat Jul 13, 2013, 07:29 PM - Edit history (2)

Reuters (which cherry picked two sentences from two paragraphs thus removing the context for those two sentences) :

"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview with the Argentinean paper La Nacion. "The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare."

Greenwald's interview (I bolded the parts of Greenwald's replies that Reuters cut out)
(via Google translate)

- Beyond the revelations about the spying system performance in general, what extra information has Snowden?

-Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the U.S. government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. Its objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. It has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the U.S. government if they were made public.

- Are you afraid that someone will try to kill him?

It's a possibility, although I do not bring many benefits to anyone at this point. Already distributed thousands of documents and made sure that several people around the world have their entire file. If something were to happen, those documents would be made public. This is your insurance policy. The U.S. government should be on your knees every day praying that nothing happens to Snowden, because if something happens, all information will be revealed and that would be their worst nightmare.

http://translate.google.com.br/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanacion.com.ar%2F1600674-glenn-greenwald-snowden-tiene-informacion-para-causar-mas-dano

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What Greenwald said vs Reuters summary of what he said: [View all] Luminous Animal Jul 2013 OP

Whoa, wordy attempt to save his career flamingdem Jul 2013 #1

I posted the original interview. You know the original interview that Reuters cherry picked. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #4

An entire paragraph isn't "cherrypicking". KittyWampus Jul 2013 #10

Reuters did not post the entire paragraphs. They cherry picked two sentences Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #17

They did not use ellipses. They did not change the meaning. No context makes Greewald sound rational KittyWampus Jul 2013 #20

So if you post more words� people may not read THIS part KittyWampus Jul 2013 #2

GG couldn't resist sharing his fantasy about the USA flamingdem Jul 2013 #5

-snicker- KittyWampus Jul 2013 #12

. flamingdem Jul 2013 #14

But that's not his goal changes the whole thing, doesn't it? nt Mojorabbit Jul 2013 #7

More words provide context. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #8

LOL! There is no context that makes the paragraph reasonable. It's not like they used ellipses. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #13

What are you talking about... Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #22

Thanks. allin99 Jul 2013 #3

So we can add: not particularly press savvy BeyondGeography Jul 2013 #6

Snowden himself has admitted to having an insurance file. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #15

The point is Greenwald drools over himself BeyondGeography Jul 2013 #21

... AllINeedIsCoffee Jul 2013 #9

Oh mah lawd! flamingdem Jul 2013 #16

Sheldon, is that you? Octafish Jul 2013 #19

It's clever if one is a bigot. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #36

Greenwald sounds like a shyster. GeorgeGist Jul 2013 #11

Gee. So Reuters would, ah, attempt to alter what Greenwald said? Octafish Jul 2013 #18

they didn't alter anything. It's his own words. Unedited. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #23

Not from what I've read. Is there an audio or video tape I can listen to? Octafish Jul 2013 #27

Link to the article in the original Spansh Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #29

Glenn Greenwald: "Snowden has information to cause more damage." Octafish Jul 2013 #38

Thank you for doing this. Thanks so much. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #40

You are welcome. Octafish Jul 2013 #41

+++ marions ghost Jul 2013 #59

Los Three Amigos Octafish Jul 2013 #65

It's IN THE OPENING POST. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #34

Read my translation. Octafish Jul 2013 #39

Crazy, huh? And you are welcome. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #24

It is crazy. It's also interesting to see how angry so many DUers have become these days. Octafish Jul 2013 #28

OT, but who's the illustrator for that? I'm sure I saw them in the New Yorker MisterP Jul 2013 #37

Abner Dean Octafish Jul 2013 #42

thanks for whacking that mole carolinayellowdog Jul 2013 #25

Greenwald's flaming out. All the King's Horses and All the King's Men can't fix this. MjolnirTime Jul 2013 #26

Imagine the outrage at Reuters if BUSH was still in the White House. MotherPetrie Jul 2013 #30

Thank you for more exposure of the smear machine at work. woo me with science Jul 2013 #31

Greenwald is "smearing" himself. KittyWampus Jul 2013 #33

In a democracy, the people rely on investigative journalists woo me with science Jul 2013 #35

people who commit espionage come pre-smeared arely staircase Jul 2013 #44

Propaganda talking point with no evidence whatsoever woo me with science Jul 2013 #45

he gave the chinese the IP addresses of us hack targets and specific information as to which arely staircase Jul 2013 #48

Your perseverence is noted woo me with science Jul 2013 #49

Hopefully he will be brought to justice soon. nt arely staircase Jul 2013 #50

He deserves a medal for exposing the trashing of the Constitution by our own government. woo me with science Jul 2013 #57

whatever the jury decides nt arely staircase Jul 2013 #58

That's not the point. No matter what revenge our government may exact on Snowden, woo me with science Jul 2013 #61

I think he should exercise his 6th amendment rights soon. nt arely staircase Jul 2013 #62

He didn't reveal how only the fact that we hacked CIVILIAN computer systems... Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #51

civilian? lol he can explain that to the jury arely staircase Jul 2013 #52

Thank you. I was starting to translate this article when I got interrupted by some Cleita Jul 2013 #32

Here is what I don't get. Doesn't such a pronouncement make Mr. Snowden less safe? arely staircase Jul 2013 #43

Thanks for taking time. It's been unbelievable watching the smear machine at work n/t Catherina Jul 2013 #46

"Smear machine"? ProSense Jul 2013 #47

You wish. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #55

Still sounds like a threat to me. BenzoDia Jul 2013 #53

Of course it is a threat. It's conditional... kill me and I will harm you. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #54

So...what was the problem with the Reuters article then? BenzoDia Jul 2013 #56

The Reuters article did not make it clear that the threat was conditional. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #63

No, it is "kill me and I will harm the US." So anyone wanting to harm the US just has to kill him arely staircase Jul 2013 #60

As already revealed, he has info on other countries complicity with surveillance... Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #64