Suppose Rachael Maddow or Moyers or other left hero had done what Greenwald and Snowden did?

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21. You Mean After They Were Awarded...

Greenwald has received awards including the first Izzy Award for independent journalism, in 2009,[17] and the 2010 Online Journalism Award for Best Commentary.[18] In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programmes, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden.[19][20] The series on which Greenwald worked, along with others, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[21][22] His NSA reporting has won numerous other awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting,[23] the 2013 Online Journalism Awards,[24] the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his articles in O Globo on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the first foreigner to win the award),[25] the 2013 Libertad de Expresion Internacional award from Argentinian magazine Perfil,[26] and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald

Sure they would. The authoritarians and the professional bed-wetters wouldn't have it any other way.