Bob Cesca on Greenwald's "Worst Nightmare" Threat

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29. Cesca has some choice phrases: “Don’t nobody move, see, or the United States government gets it!”

3) All of that said, the U.S. government has faced down Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, the British Empire and the Army of Northern Virginia. I think the government has seen its fair share of “worst nightmares,” extending far beyond the actions of an NSA hacker who’s not even courageous enough in his convictions to return to the U.S. and face charges like others have.

And, I might add, the Soviet Union at the height of its power rattling nukes at us. I grew up with that lengthy scenario, and it was not fun. In my work with the VFP during the Bush II years, one of my friends was a university professor who had been a "Cold Warrior" in intel. At the outset of the Cuban Missile Crisis he dumped the wife and kids in the car and took them far out in the countryside, away from their city of residence, which was a target, then went back to his classified job. I was an ignorant kid, but he was an adult in the know, and that's how seriously he took it. But the US government, in the person of President Kennedy, did not back down.

I love this one:
4) In his subsequent clarification post, Greenwald wrote, “The US government has acted with wild irrationality.” He continues by writing that the government has attempted to block Snowden from fleeing Russia. Yeah, totally irrational behavior in pursuit of a fugitive who claims to have “insurance documents” that could seriously harm the U.S. government. Clearly in all of Greenwald’s legal dealings he’s failed to learn anything about how fugitives are pursued. Same goes for Snowden.

And this one about the threats made by Greenwald, that he tried to deny were threats:
6) ... The Argentinian newspaper simply asked Greenwald if Snowden had additional documents. The question: “Beyond the revelations about the spying system performance in general, what extra information has Snowden?” There’s nothing in that question about a potential assassination or “insurance documents” that could harm the U.S. government.
Greenwald volunteered the threatening language, not Snowden or Wikileaks or Assange. He did it in classic noir mob movie style: “Don’t nobody move, see, or the United States government gets it!”
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/07/greenwalds-big-threat-if-snowden-is-assassinated-the-u-s-government-will-pay-the-price/#.UeNtjZ4hOOA.twitter

I have to say Cesca has a certain perspective that by now I find fairly refreshing.