GREENWALD: "There's a story from the beginning-I thought would be our biggest- & I'm saving that"

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28. So let me get this straight

"GREENWALD: "There's a story from the beginning-I thought would be our biggest- & I'm saving that""

...Greenwald's interest isn't reform, but maximizing shock value based on a timing of his choosing? What happened to the public service that was suppose to inform debate and help shape reform? Greenwald and his defenders crow about how a debate or reform wouldn't have happened if not for Snowden's leaks, but here he is telling people that he selectively withheld information that likely could have had a real impact at the height of the debate.

Not that I doubt this is more Greenwald hyping something he's about to rehash, most of the information is such. I mean, one of the stories getting attention today is that the NSA collects "billions" of data. How many times and in how many ways did he report that last year?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023124512#post6

From the GQ interview, Greenwald also wants people to know that he, not Snowden, should get credit for the "decision-making" on what is released:

What do you think the biggest illusions are about the various roles that you and Snowden have played in all of these revelations?

I think that there's this ridiculous effort to attribute every leak to Snowden in terms of what he decided to publish or when he decided to publish it. It gets framed as "Snowden's latest leak" or "Why did Snowden decide to leak this?" But he actually plays very little role in making decisions about what gets published. I make all those decisions myself. I consult with him—because what I publish reflects on him or affects his legal situation. But he doesn't play any decision-making role at all in that process. So that's a huge misconception.

On the other hand, some people assume that he's played less of a role in how the reporting gets done. I mean, at the beginning he had very strong ideas for what he wanted to be published and not be published. And a lot of what has happened since then is the by-product of that process. Some people try to depict him as this sort of like reckless leaker and the newspapers, especially the Times and the Post, as the responsible journalists, when in reality, I mean, he's actually probably been more conservative in thinking about what should he publish than those newspapers have been. I don't think anyone really appreciates the extent to which that's true.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201406/glenn-greenwald-edward-snowden-no-place-to-hide