defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

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

yeah. really shocking. v curious to hear about the fallout, it seems stunningly confrontational, & at such a heated moment.

according to twitter, in the UK the rent-a-cops (or whatever you'd like to call the airport security) don't even need suspicion to detain someone for 9 hours, under their antiterrorism statute

This fucking thread title never ceases to annoy me.

has greenwald been back to the US since the snowden stuff started?

nah, he even skyped in to conference he'd been scheduled to keynote in chicago

nine fucking hours

what assholes

really just so dumb

crazy they have his stuff.

This is pretty shitty but goddamn it Greenwald please stop writing things like "This was obviously designed to send a message of intimidation to those of us working journalistically on reporting on the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ."

STOP MINDREADING THE INTENTIONS OF BUREAUCRATS, GLENN. I strongly suspect the reality of the situation was somewhere NEAR what he says but shading ever-so-slightly towards "stupid fuck-up by an asshole overstepping their bounds", which is the explanation for 99.9% of all airport detentions everywhere. I think. I guess. But I'm not going to write that in a newspaper unless I can prove it. That never stops Glenn. He knows what everyone is thinking.

Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7

this is fucking crazy.

I strongly suspect the reality of the situation was somewhere NEAR what he says but shading ever-so-slightly towards "stupid fuck-up by an asshole overstepping their bounds"

but like, 9 hours? specifically asking about his reporting?

Did he ever get his phone and laptop back?

That never stops Glenn. He knows what everyone is thinking.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, August 19, 2013 12:17 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

Did he ever get his phone and laptop back?

It sounds like not? Which is like, stealing, by most definitions???

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/britain-detains-partner-of-reporter-tied-to-leaks.html?_r=0

Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden. The British authorities seized all of his electronic media — including video games, DVDs and data storage devices — and did not return them, Mr. Greenwald said.

I just don't see how they can do they if the guy hasn't been charged. It's not like a bag of weed. It's a USB stick.

at borders they can pretty much just take stuff generally

part of why they went out of business

they're still chill at barnes & noble tho

xpost dammit

tracer it's in one of the articles that less than 1% of airport detentions under the same provisions last for the full 9 hours

"stupid fuck-up by an asshole overstepping their bounds", which is the explanation for 99.9% of all airport detentions everywhere = this is the 0.1%

i would certainly be interested in knowing who gave the order

http://lh3.ggpht.com/-xB_tkBXOw00/UR1cnnmfB2I/AAAAAAAAa3g/VKgKt-edapc/Jack-Nicolson-you-cant-handle-the-tr.jpg?imgmax=800