WOW...Glenn Greenwald Strikes Back! NEW Revelations of Media Funding!

[Blue_Tires]

139. Yeah, I've read time and again his "official" reasons

and aside from the "wanting to take time to decode, authenticate, and place in proper context before publishing," the rest of them are a crock...

My issue with Snowden is that he doesn't want to "kill the beast", he just wants Congress to perform some minor surgery on it (i.e., eliminate the domestic/electronic/telecom surveillance and the mass data leeching and he'd be just fine with it)...Hard to believe someone with Greenwald's libertarian street cred would go along with such a thin slice of pie when he could have the whole thing, but clearly he can't risk alienating Snowden...To be fair to Snowden, from day one he has always been upfront about exactly what he wants to accomplish; I'd just been too deaf to hear him...To his credit if he's doing what I think he's doing, then Snowden has played his hand deftly and is a hundred times smarter than I originally gave him credit for...

I guess some improvement is better than nothing, and if Congress ever gets around to passing those quick-fix reforms for the NSA scandal, I'll be satisfied but left feeling that a MUCH greater opportunity was missed...The NSA, their collaboration with corporate America, covert warfare, drone strikes and military missions that don't "officially exist" all go hand-in-hand and I personally believe there may never be another opportunity like this in history to bring the whole system down...Because even after the surgery, it *will* keep growing...

But that's all moot...Any lofty expectations (probably unrealistic, admittedly) I had about the un-released data will remain unfulfilled and we'll continue to get periodic embarrassing-but-not-really-shocking stories about the NSA spying on us or our allies until Washington finally feels the impetus to clean up its act, if only a little...