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This article makes it seem like Greenwald would be releasing the 'secrets' in a retaliatory manner, rather than (what I believe to be) his original intentions t
by bigdubs 13y ago
This article makes it seem like Greenwald would be releasing the 'secrets' in a retaliatory manner, rather than (what I believe to be) his original intentions to release them anyway, to show that he is undeterred.
Does this seem disingenuous to anyone else? Why play up the (potentially non-existent) retaliatory angle?
- goatforce5 13y agoWhy? Because it gives them a good angle to bring additional attention to the story. Similarly, if a really major news story broke today (a war starting, someone super famous dying, cure for AIDS found, etc.), i'd expect them to delay the release of these new secrets because they wont have the attention they want.
- rhizome 13y agoThe governments and intelligence communities are desperate to turn the tide against a person rather than the agencies involved, and delegitimize Greenwald as a journalist. The story is out of control as far as the governments are concerned, and their bluntest weapons are violence (not yet) and character assassination.
- Rick_Ellensburg 13y agoI'm not surprised they are scared. Mr. Greenwald has written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken multiple storoes on his blog about wiretapping that each led to front-page stories on most major newspapers in the country, and Russ Feingold read from my blog during the censure hearings. I don't think there has ever been a journalist as brave.