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In reply to the discussion: What Greenwald said vs Reuters summary of what he said: [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)20. They did not use ellipses. They did not change the meaning. No context makes Greewald sound rational
The reason you are trying so hard to make it seem rational or appropriate is because IT ISN'T.
"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."
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I posted the original interview. You know the original interview that Reuters cherry picked.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#4
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
LOL! There is no context that makes the paragraph reasonable. It's not like they used ellipses.
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#13
It is crazy. It's also interesting to see how angry so many DUers have become these days.
Octafish
Jul 2013
#28
Greenwald's flaming out. All the King's Horses and All the King's Men can't fix this.
MjolnirTime
Jul 2013
#26
he gave the chinese the IP addresses of us hack targets and specific information as to which
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#48
He deserves a medal for exposing the trashing of the Constitution by our own government.
woo me with science
Jul 2013
#57
That's not the point. No matter what revenge our government may exact on Snowden,
woo me with science
Jul 2013
#61
He didn't reveal how only the fact that we hacked CIVILIAN computer systems...
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#51
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
Of course it is a threat. It's conditional... kill me and I will harm you.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#54
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