AP: Journalist Glenn Greenwald to Investigate the NSA's Role in Washington's Assassination Program

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25. Investigative reporting is not spying.

The NSA spying intrudes on individuals' private lives. That is objectionable and in my opinion a violation of several articles and amendments of the Constitution.

Investigative reporting about the government concerns finding out what the government is trying to hide from the people and revealing those secrets to the people.

The goal of the spying is to create a secret record of very personal information, in this case, primarily about individuals or companies.

The goal of investigative reporting is to serve the public interest by finding out and publish a truth, usually about some scandalous behavior on the part of the government or someone in the government or a private entity or individual that the government or some entity or person is trying to keep secret, but which the public should have the right to know.

Greenwald is doing investigative reporting. It is an essential function in a democracy.