Ellsberg: Journalists Who Attack Glenn Greenwald Are "Tools"

[leftynyc]

123. He's also on the same board

on an organization set up by Greenwald so forgive me for seeing he has some skin in the game and may be just the tiniest bit biased:

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/07/daniel-ellsbergs-stunning-fall-trifecta.html

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Last week, I highlighted the connections between Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Wikileaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a front-group that was conveniently set up by Greenwald and his cohort Laura Poitras (who interviewed Edward Snowden on camera) just a month before Snowden began contacting Poitras and Snowden. Greenwald and Poitras are both board members of this front group, as is Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers fame.

Ellsberg penned an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday defending Snowden's flight from justice, canonizing Snowden and dutifully serving up accolades to Greenwald and his employer (The Guardian), without once mentioning that he has at least a professional connection to Glenn Greenwald that could serve as a potential conflict of interest: Ellsberg sits on the Board of this front group with Glenn Greenwald. So much for transparency, I guess.