Assange threatens to release Snowden info that Greenwald says could endanger lives

[struggle4progress]

Julian Assange attacked Glenn Greenwald yesterday for a redaction in a recent story based on Snowden's NSA documents. Greenwald said it was done to save lives.
By Dan Murphy
May 20, 2014

The presumed tension between anti-secrecy activist Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald, the arch-disseminator of NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden, erupted into the open yesterday on Twitter. The two sparred publicly over Greenwald's decision to redact a piece of information from a recent story ...

Assange is generally assumed to write the Wikileaks Twitter feed (and has been watched doing so.) And he wasn't happy at Greenwald's decision to withhold information ...

Is Assange telling the truth? If he is, that strongly implies a major leak in Greenwald's boat, which discredits his and Snowden's earlier claims that all documents taken by Snowden were being handled responsibly, and that there was no chance of their leaking to anyone.

Assange does have a track record of saying things that are provably false, for instance his claim that the trove of battlefield reports leaked by Chelsea Manning "was available to every soldier and contractor in Afghanistan." But he's now put himself on the spot by promising a specific detail in such a limited time-frame ...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2014/0520/Assange-threatens-to-release-Snowden-info-that-Greenwald-says-could-endanger-lives

[Thinkingabout]

1. There has been more than one false feed between the three, sure doesn't build integrity.

[randome]

2. Of course there have been leaks.

The idea that corporations can safely handle national security documents has been ludicrous from the start.

As was the cheering on of said corporations by DUers who supposedly never met a corporation they liked.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[Aerows]

4. Privatization

What do you think of it?

[grasswire]

7. so why did NSA seek so many contractors?

They even hired contractors to review the 6,200 pages of the super secret report prior to it being released to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

[Aerows]

3. If it endangers lives

they shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. I'm sick of this shit. You can spy everywhere, but couldn't catch a tax evader?

Can't catch a Boston bomber, but you can pick on the little guys and use evidence that was unlawfully obtained and fail to tell the defense?

No, I do not buy it anymore.

[woo me with science]

5. Thank you. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. No honor among thieves I guess...