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3. Greenwald is one of the biggest liars in the media. Perhaps the biggest.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 06:44 AM
Aug 2016

Let me give you one example.

In his "Exclusive" story published on June 6, 2013 in The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald used a headline and second headline that read like this,

"NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily; Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama."


Greenwald could have used that same headline back in 2006, except he would have had to change "Obama" to "Bush," "Verizon" to "all telephone companies" and "top secret court order" to "no court order at all."

You see, in a 2006 post on his personal blog "Unclaimed Territory," lawyer and blogger Glenn Greenwald responded to the first time the NSA telephone metadata collection program was exposed. It was initially outed by USA Today in 2006, seven years before the world had heard of Edward Snowden. In 2006, Greenwald admitted that the telephone metadata program was likely Constitutional.

That, my friends, is proof of one of the biggest frauds you have ever seen perpetrated by the media. There are others.





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