Chris Hayes Keeps Glenn Greenwald A Little Bit Honest On Snowden Charges

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Chris Hayes Keeps Glenn Greenwald A Little Bit Honest On Snowden Charges

On the heels of the revelation that the U.S. government has charged Edward Snowden under the Espionage Act, All In host Chris Hayes interviewed Snowden promoter Glenn Greenwald, and despite an obvious sympathy for the embattled leaker, managed to push back on several of Greenwald’s talking points. Unfortunately, Hayes also missed a few opportunities to put Greenwald’s agenda in perspective.

Hayes’ adeptness at effective devil’s advocacy is one of the keys to his appeal, and he did better than a lot of Snowden-sympathetic interviewers do. When Greenwald began fanning himself at Snowden’s espionage charges because, my goodness, it’s not as if he sold classified information to another government, Hayes pointed out that he isn’t being charged with doing that.

“One of the complaints is theft of government property,” Hayes said. “The specific language is ‘unauthorized communication of national defense communication, and willful communication to an unauthorized person,” he pointed out, and asked “doesn’t the government have to do something? Somebody who worked for the government, and inside the government, skips out with 1,000 classified documents. This is a fairly big breach.”

“I don’t think you will find very many people argue that he should not be charged with any sort of a criminal offense,” Greenwald replied, which would have been a good time to point out that this is exactly what the Snowden cheerleaders have been suggesting. Even before the NSA story, the mainsream annd liberal press were beside themselves at the notion of the government even investigating so-called whistleblowers.

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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-hayes-keeps-glenn-greenwald-a-little-bit-honest-on-snowden-charges/#0

p.s. The article also points out a few things that Hayes should have said. Be sure to read the last four paragraphs on the link above.

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[DURHAM D]

1. Chris did a decent job in the interview but

what I did not like is that Greenwald repeatedly blamed the entire problem on the Obama administration and Chris did no push back on Glenn's bogus setup.