defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

i.f. stone was not a great stylist either, yknow

As a lover of both, not a good comparison.

pareene could stand to ditch the bloggy voice (this goes for almost everyone who blogs) but he's always a good read

actually i really like pareene, he's not the best example, just the first one that popped to mind.

How much do you want to bet that before the summer is out we'll be saying stuff like "Wow, you'd think Greenwald would've known to not take his car down a canyon at night. SMH I guess he really liked to live on the edge."

hmmmmmm nope

Richard Clarke, the former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council, believes that Hasting’s death may have been the result of a cyberattack on his car.

http://www.ibtimes.com/michael-hastings-car-hacking-theory-latest-attempt-explain-suspicious-death-richard-clarke-says#

do you guys even think Obama knows who michael hastings is

Sure. He reads Andrew Sullivan.

oh no buzzfeed is turning against me I guess I have to kill some people

maybe the white house should start an animated gif department to counter buzzfeed's gaining influence, also then they won't have to kill so many journalists

when the us govt wants to get rid of a journalist it doesnt kill him it tries to leverage access w/ other papers and influential ppl to discredit him and prevent him from getting a job. and maybe he kills himself later or something, but it doesnt matter.

when it wants to kill a us citizen it connects him with terrorism and sends a drone in

it doesnt... hack... his car. i mean the sort of willful disregard of the actually weirdly open and transparent workings of power here, which hastings himself had mentioned in the past!

like, if someone said, the MOB took him out, i might buy that?

without even knowing hastings it seems p clear that the poor guy was strung out and paranoid in the final weeks of his life, not hard to end up crashing your car at 4am in a state of mind like that

i suppose you could arrange a kind of aaron swartz style path of causation. but the fbi wasnt investigating him.

max is only saying this so he doesn't get killed

max u better check the firewall on yr kick scooter

that being said i guarantee you obama knows who hastings is. hastings is the reason he fired mcchrystal!

Max this is exactly what the government wants you to think, that it won't go down like this. Think abt it.

guys you realize richard clarke sees cyberattacks EVERYWHERE right? i mean if you're looking at one individual to point at as to why we have this ridiculously large cyber intel infrastructure now clarke's yr man.

guys i dont think the government killed michael hastings or will try to kill gg or snowden ftr

i just think its sort of insane and lol that ~richard clarke~ implied this

guys

i mean give the guy credit for blasting the bush admin's incompetence leading to 9/11 (condi rice hadn't even heard of al qaeda on 9/11, head of the fucking nsa) and their immediate (as in 9/12) move to focus on iraq but he's the classic case of maslow's hammer. dude was still beating the 'cyberattacks is the terrorism, WE MUST DIRECT ALL EFFORTS TOWARD FUTURE CYBERWARS!' drum after 9/11 (when it seemed pretty apparent that 'splosions would probably remain the terrorism of the near future at least).

here comes the character assassination: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/greenwald-reporter-broke-nsa-story-lawyer-sued-porn-biz-article-1.1383448

Haas said he called the deal off because Greenwald was “demanding changes to the content of the videos which were and are unacceptable.”

suits thinking they have artistic talent smh

In a 2003 lawsuit, he and his then partner, Werner Achetz, were sued by their West Side condo board for having a dog that was bigger than building by-laws allowed.

oh man Glenn I take back everything nice I ever said about you

most damning is that his consulting company was called Master Notions

Bit of a fluff piece but worth reading. His family grew up 25 miles north of me.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-glenn-greenwald-became-glenn-greenwald

i haven't read greenwald in years but what other journalists are trying to do to him is fucking gross

the hagiography should make up for it

not really

Daily News article is bizarre, but I guess Daily News is bizarre.

This is pretty tremendous: http://youtu.be/Uulv4ve6RJ8

have to admit i was pleasantly surprised he kept the conference on his schedule after all this stuff broke, i thought he might bail to avoid "zomg look greenwald is a socialist" bs

socialist, libertarian, whats the difference

step 1 spend your life promoting government paranoia step 2 socialism

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

a thing that exists xp

heh, yeah, i remember that wiki article really blowing my mind in 10th grade

it's....not a very coherent ideology

kinda bummed that a hoos thought he had to post that for me tbh

just like man up and go full maoist or go home imo

cf black flame, the existence of competing ideas under a name with disputed claims doesn't make the strain with a historical claim to legitimacy incoherent

but that's another thread

socialists want to fix the government, iatee... fix it BUT GOOD

idk it's interesting how infrequently that narrative comes out

hate the government reading yr emails ur gonna love the government telling you where to work

thx to this thread i always mentally interpose a "fuckin" whenever i read this dude's name

mordy fucking mordy

the dead man switch would make an awesome tom ripley novel scenario ~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch

The oft-repeated claim that Snowden's intent is to harm the US is completely negated by the reality that he has all sorts of documents that could quickly and seriously harm the US if disclosed, yet he has published none of those. When he gave us the documents he provided, he repeatedly insisted that we exercise rigorous journalistic judgment in deciding which documents should be published in the public interest and which ones should be concealed on the ground that the harm of publication outweighs the public value. If his intent were to harm the US, he could have sold all the documents he had for a great deal of money, or indiscriminately published them, or passed them to a foreign adversary. He did none of that.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow

this is pretty amazing

Mr. Miranda, 28, was questioned about the curious cargo shorts he wears in every photo extant of him and his partner Greenwald

absolutely disgusting