Maher to Greenwald: Every Time Snowden Speaks, 'He Always Says Something F*cking Nuts'

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28. IMO Greenwald is a user

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He used a naive — maybe not so naive, 29-year-old — who took a job for three months to apparently steal info. Or maybe was encouraged to steal info by, who knows, Greenwald?

Greenwald, he with the smug, shit-eating smirk, now has parlayed his use of Snowden in this whole affair to get financial backing for his own media company while Snowden, apparently pining to come home, sits miserably in Russia.

Snowden should have stopped with releasing documents on domestic info gathering. That was legitimate whistle-blowing. Releasing information on our international intelligence gathering (all countries that can afford it do it, btw), damaged our relationships with some foreign governments and possibly blew the cover of our operatives and the foreign nationals they worked with.

To me, as I posted in another thread, because he did the latter, he's no hero as he over-stepped the province of whistle-blower heroism and became something else (I mean, who is he to decide that the intricacies of our international intelligence gathering should be released to the world?).

Some call what he did sedition or even treason, I'll just call him a defector.