Since it's all the rage to complain about what people post (Greenwald) [View all]

[BainsBane]

How does whether or not Greenwald is a libertarian impact the issue of NSA surveillance? What if Snowden isn't a perfect human being? What if he is a so-called traitor? What if someone doesn't like some or many aspects of Snowden or Greenwald as individuals? None of that directly deals with what I see as the key issue: Is NSA surveillance an infringement on our civil liberties and constitutional rights? To what extent if any does national security justify giving up some of those liberties? Where do we draw the line between privacy and safety from terrorism? Those are issues I care about. What I do not care about is Glen Greenwald or Snowden individually. They could both be the biggest assholes on the planet, and it doesn't mean the information they played a role in making public is factually incorrect or unimportant.


I also find it funny how the issue of NSA surveillance rises and falls based on Greenwald when Bart Gellman of the Washington Post also published information he received from Edward Snowden, and the Post won a Pulitzer for it.