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It's interesting to contrast this article with Greenwald talking about the content of the book: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13/collect_it_all_glenn_gree
by grey-area 13y ago
It's interesting to contrast this article with Greenwald talking about the content of the book:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13/collect_it_all_glenn_greenwald_on http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13/collect_it_all_glenn_g...
The review fails to tackle allegations of economic espionage for the department of commerce, interception of hardware to install backdoors, targeting allies, targeting dissidents not terrorists, and an ambition to collect all the information on the planet.
Given the lack of engagement with the central allegations of the book, and the sniping about his character in this review, I think it demonstrates very well that media outlets publish only a few such secret documents, and then stop. The NYT has just occasionally been brilliant in covering this story (mostly when involving Laura Poitras), but mostly has avoided the central issues and has completely avoided challenging the talking points and framing of this story by the administration as about terrorism and a naif who has put the country in danger, encouraged by the 'activist' Greenwald.