defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

lol yrs was better

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE NSA DID IN ONE RESTON BATHROOM

This might be the most important 6,000 words you ever read

Washington Post has an article on it, as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/10/15/glenn-greenwald-bolts-the-guardian-for-some-fabulous-media-organization/

Maybe he can hire some IL Xor users.

As to its headquarters, we asked Greenwald whether any consideration had been given to locating it outside of the United States, given the legal sensitivity of the reporting he has done in recent months. He declined to answer, but gave us a treat and noted that it’s an “important and good question.”

what a treat

he gave them the treat then said that

http://www.makeyourownjeans.com/custom-shorts/cool-cargo-shorts

lol xp

More details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/blogger-journalist-glenn-greenwald-to-leave-britains-guardian-newspaper/2013/10/15/a0cf9a4c-35e8-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

good to see glenn monetizing his personal brand!

max be the prophet https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/294228722154868737

haha that will never get old. even greenwald laughed at it iirc, one of three documented cases of him laughing, first one not involving his dogs.

lol I reluctantly find this amusing

just two bros walking dogs to outdoor Beyonce concert

http://www.out.com/sites/out.com/files/GlennGreenwald1.jpg

Sounds interesting.

http://pressthink.org/2013/10/why-pierre-omidyar-decided-to-join-forces-with-glenn-greenwald-for-a-new-venture-in-news/

i support this one million % as a thing for a billionaire to spend his money on

heh

Maria Bustillos ‏@mariabustillos 28m
Smug, long-winded, and correct on all counts: @ggreenwald answers his critics http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponses-for-journalists.html

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 1m
@mariabustillos Better than humble, concise and wrong on all counts! Thanks.

the only part id take issue with is this

And as our source has repeatedly proven: if he's unhappy about how matters are proceeding or has something to say, he's more than willing and able to speak out.

snowden obvs belongs to russian intelligence at this point

also lol at greenwald being super upset at josh marshall when all he did was tweet a link sans comment to the article

http://i.imgur.com/LmFjTVX.png

do RTs represent endorcements

there certainly seems to be a bit of professional jealousy in the air, though some of the points that have been raised have been valid

His new site is launched : https://firstlook.org/theintercept/

lol at the first of what will be numerous digital magazines *displays blog*

this internet thing is really taking off

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/business/media/start-up-site-hires-critic-of-wall-st.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0&referrer=

taibbi joins first look

how can they even spend 250 million on this site, it just looks like quartz

maybe they're giving taibbi an unlimited drug and whore fund

GG won a Polk Award on Sunday, I guess Mordy wasn't on the panel. Ceremony is April 11 in NYC, he may return to the US for it.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/02/snowden-leaks-honored-by-polk-awards-183450.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/19/279612007/u-k-court-oks-detention-of-reporter-glenn-greenwalds-partner

The Intercept and Pando Daily are currently at war on Twitter over a Mark Ames article showing that Omidayar and the US State Dept. had been funding anti-government groups in Ukraine prior to the current crisis. As Ames mentions in his article, Pando itself is partly funded by Peter Thiel whose politics are sickening. Highlights how complicated notionally independent online media gets when you start turning to billionaires for money.

the pando bros are really annoying to follow on twitter is all i have to say about this

i enjoy and appreciate their work but there is a certain level of pettiness and professional jealousy imbued in all of their written work (and that practically defines their online personae) that i find suffocating

k3vin otm, i like ames's work a lot but their obsession with discrediting greenwald is way more personal than political and long predates omidayar.

it'll be "interesting" to see what his relationship is with taibbi now

i dont know ames doesnt find it exhausting being the way he is

his book on spree shooters is great though

Tom Ricks has a growing suspicion that Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden are up to something.

On Saturday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter posed a question to Greenwald on Twitter.

"Glenn, any comments from you or Edward Snowden on the recent round of media shutdowns in Russia?" Ricks asked.

After initially referring Ricks to Snowden's representative at the ACLU, Greenwald asked Ricks if he had any comment on "Peruvian police corruption," "corporate waste dumping in E Africa," or a U.S. drone strike from last year that killed 13 people en route to a wedding party in Yemen.

Sure, Ricks said, he'd be "happy to comment," but not before he saw Greenwald denounce Vladmir Putin "and his crackdown."

The next day, after he evidently didn't get the response from Greenwald that he was looking for, Ricks took to Twitter to denounce "Peruvian police corruption and US drones that kill innocents."

"Now [your] turn to discuss Putin," Ricks said to Greenwald.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-ricks-glenn-greenwald-edward-snowden

GG's mom = Angela Lansbury

WaPo, Guardian win Pulitzers for NSA/Snowden coverage

CONGRATS GLENN FUUUUUUCKING GREENWALD

bet those pulitzers have cameras in them

CONGRATS GLENN FUUUUUUCKING GREENWALD

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, April 14, 2014 7:14 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I'm hearing that in Rick's (from Rick & Morty) voice, with a burp extending the "FUUUUUCKING."

appearing at Politics & Prose in DC next Wednesday! Day before I visit probly, goddammit.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/polpro/639084

Michael Kinsley: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-greenwald-michael-kinsley-new-york-times-lock-up-snowden

Kinsley, a columnist for Vanity Fair and a longtime liberal commentator

He's no liberal, or at least no longer a conventional liberal. He seems unpredictable and kinda grouchy old guy in most of his writing I have read lately.

Greenwald making the rounds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/05/22/nbc-newss-brian-williams-interviews-snowden-greenwald/

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/05/23/response-michael-kinsley/

Greenwald responds to Kinsley

fucking Chait: https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/469484227931561986

god, fuck that guy

i guess threatening 'unpleasant' journalists with prison time has now become the preferred default position of smug nominally liberal 'centrists.'

hippie punching uber alles

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/05/prioritizing-personalities-over-free-press