Glenn Fucking Greenwald in 2017: "Leaks are BAD!!!!"

[Blue_Tires]

Link to tweet

Any of Glenn's people and other transparency advocates on this forum care to respond? There's a deep state liberal conspiracy on Twitter, dontchaknow?

[LonePirate]

1. He can go f*** himself. He has no room to complain about leaks.

[JHan]

2. I'll never tire of these examples of his ridiculousness

So unaware. How much cognitive dissonance is required to complain about something that made you famous , in this case leaks.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Ok, that's, you know, funny

[FakeNoose]

4. What is there to "get"?

Trump is the leaker. Hold Trump accountable.
You start by shutting down his ridiculous Twitter account.

[still_one]

5. go to hell you hypocritical POS. You had no problem with Snowden, and in fact used him as a patsy

to elevate your position.

The good news is if there was any doubt about Greenwald, Stein, Taibbi, and the other phony assholes, they have exposed themselves for what they are.

No doubt when this all falls apart Greenwald will slither back into the picture and say something like "he always knew there was a Russian connection". Hopefully by that time he will have lost a good number of his readers. He should have lost all credibility by now

[hrmjustin]

6. I think most of the fools that defended this man here have migrated.

There are so many things to say but all I will say is it was never about principles for Glenn.

[Scurrilous]

7. He's jockeying for Hannity's slot.

[Mme. Defarge]

8. The subject needs to be reframed.

The information being anonymously released is a the work of whistleblowers, not leakers.

[uponit7771]

9. This can not be real ... this ... fuckin wow

[JCanete]

10. Well according to Glenn himself, he seems to be suggesting that he finds it hypocritical that these

leaks are being seen as okay to people, and not being condemned by the same people who have condemned other leaks. It was a clunky ass tweet to try to attempt that, and I had an entirely different comment until I ran into that twitter exchange, but I see no reason not to buy that intent. You can disagree with the validity of the argument, but if that is the argument, it isn't actually about Greenwald condemning these leaks.

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Sigh. It's a point about how DC elites treat leaks inconsistently based on what they like. This was my next tweet:Glenn Greenwald added,
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I personally am not bothered by these leaks, but DC goes insane over low-level, harmless leaks, imprisoning leakers. These way more serious.

[OilemFirchen]

11. Nice try!

Your buddy has a platform because he helped encourage a CIA employee to steal and disseminate, without discretion, classified information, potentially putting lives at risk.

His mewling false equivalence backtrack is embarrassing. And utterly predictable.

[JCanete]

17. what do you mean, nice try? You could be right. Do you have other evidence that suggests he is

usually hawkish about leaks? If so, that might be convincing. Otherwise, given that I'm only going on what he himself has posted, until somebody shows me otherwise(and when I have time, I might dig for it myself after work), I see no reason to not take him at his word in the full context.

this has nothing to do with him being my buddy, which he isn't. It shouldn't have anything to do with you hating the man enough to be utterly certain either. If all you're going on is this tweet and your dislike for the man, that isn't enough. I'm striving for some level of personal objectivity. I hope you are too.

[OilemFirchen]

19. His follow-up tweet was ridiculous.

If you've familiarized yourself with Greenwald, you'd know that he has a rather nasty propensity to play coy when called out. He's pretending to be outraged that politicians maintain double-standards, but his actual beef is that said politicians were, themselves, outraged about the theft and dissemination of classified - some highly so - information by his one-time cash cow Snowden.

We know that he really doesn't give a shit about leaks because he would have - as others have observed - been equally vocal on the subject during the Obama presidency. Including, and most specifically, those from Snowden himself. He wasn't. And we know that he didn't care, during that time, about the duplicity on the part of elected officials, because it has only suddenly occurred to him.

Your posts suggest that you believe his dissembling - thus the snark. If that's not the case, I apologize.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. completely unsurprising the lengths to which most white men will go to uphold white supremacy

and before someone starts freaking out at me, a majority of white people voted for a blatantly white supremacists government, so don't be pretending this isn't true.

[Corgigal]

13. I guess his monthly spy check

didn't bounce. Got to be stressful to live constantly looking over your shoulder. One trick pony might have to learn a new trick. We've all seen it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Did he condemn the DNC & Hillary staffer leaks? What a POS.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. honestly, i have come around to thinking that snowden was misguided and weird

but greenwald is the real asshole in all these stories.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Makes you wonder why he's willing to cut Trump slack re: leakers, but Hillary & the Obama....

administration were ruthlessly attacked by GG & Co.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. did you see my post 12?

that's what i think

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. Sadly, I agree. Afterall, GG did represent a white supremacist in court. Didn't GG lose his law....

license for wiretapping or some such?

[stevenleser]

23. I've always believed that. Greenwald and Assange are both in the business of

Manipulating and exaggerating news and events to undermine the US. They don't care that they are dishonest or if they ruin the lives of sources. It's not about making things better for them.

[MineralMan]

21. How do you spell Greenwald's name correctly?

HYPOCRITE

[stevenleser]

22. I'm proud to say I was never fooled by this guy. I saw through him from day 1. nt

[Dawson Leery]

24. Teresa May is looking better now that the traitorous Greenwald

had openly endorsed Corbyn.

[still_one]

27. I am no fan of either May or Corbyn.

[ecstatic]

25. I assume most of the people who propped up GG & Snowden as messiahs are gone now

Mostly trolls, I assume. That was a very frustrating time! GG, Snowden, and the trolls did a LOT of damage to our unity, elections, etc.

[LenaBaby61]

26. Glenn Greenwald.

[Gothmog]

28. Who cares about Greenwald?