Can someone tell me the reason for all the trashing of Glen Greenwald?

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25. Greenwald is an opportunist, not a journalist.

That's the problem here. Yes, the basics in your post are true, but is everything else he says?

I have a difficult time trusting his judgement and ability to deliver a story based upon fact instead of his own personal agenda (which is all over the place). He doesn't vote, and supported the Iraq War and enactment of the Patriot Act.

An excerpt from his book, How Would A Patriot Act?:

"I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country."

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?fuseaction=printable&book_number=1812


Greenwald has zero credibility.