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

[delrem]

254. Excessive secrecy mixed with dubious ill-founded semantics is creepy.

We don't talk about law, or even secret laws, we talk about secret interpretations of law.
We see excruciatingly ugly semantics trying to explain such a travesty.

Without Snowden's leaks, Manning's leaks, we'd have nothing to counter outright lies of the highest order. Whether the lies are more/less than the lies of Bush isn't in question because there's a seamlessness to them.

I see James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence for the USA, caught in a lie to congress, to the people of the USA via congress -- and the lie has to do with whether or not the NSA respects the fundamental freedoms that define the USA. Then immediately I see James Clapper walk away free, to continue his job. I see congress-people as they listen to the lies, are told of the lies, and who then stand up and applaud Clapper before the country while condemning Snowden -- not once acknowledging the lies that Snowden exposed. Instead, puffing their chests and talking about how the US is the home of justice and freedom, how Russia is not, and how Russia is somehow guilty of a crime against universal morality for not delivering Snowden into their blood-stained hands.

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HBGary has been proven to be marketing disinformation campaigns against the world public, the world citizenry, by offering to use their software to go online and infiltrate social media, forums, "comment is free" comments sections allowed by online media etc. To be sure, astroturf is as old as astroturf and we're all aware of it. But we aren't all aware of the clients that HBGary works for, and the type of program they offer, nor which victims they propose as obvious examples. Examples like Glenn Greenwald.

Greenwald isn't the only target. Oh no. In fact many of the best unembedded journalists of the Iraq war seem to have vanished -- so we have the ubiquitous presence of embedded stooges performing in costumes before green screens, reporting handed down drivel. I won't name names...

This is a market where HBGary is bidding for $billions$, or rather 100's of $billions$ in potential gov't "WoT" contracts. The $$ the "free world" is spending on the 21st century "war on terror" is unprecedented - it is by far the #1 global enterprise. Compare the GNP of Afghanistan with what is spent on destroying it. Do a comparison between what the US spends on WoT, and what it spends on upkeep to its existing infrastructure, on building new, better and life enhancing infrastructure.

There's big money, big rewards, for playing to the WoT. The script is already written for it so to play along requires that one only work out everyday so one can have a commanding presence while delivering the lines, while not even having to think about what they mean. And collecting big $$, very big $$. Enough to retire on. No chance of that feedback loop being intruded upon by ... fact. By a different point of view enlightened by an unembedded narrative. Like that of Glenn Greenwald and other free journalists.