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In reply to the discussion: I am getting sick and fucking tired of hearing that anyone opposed to NSA domestic . . . . [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)people like Assange, (the latest one is so lame, I actually laughed) and Greenwald on the assumption that other journalists will be scared into remaining silent. The only way to combat that is for all journalists to back them up and to start joining them in their work.
Greenwald we learned, was the target of a smear campaign by HB Gary, a Security Contractor who were bidding on a contract with Bank of America. Clearly they assumed that a smear campaign against a blogger, which is all he was at the time, was likely to get them the contract.
Anonymous exposed those internal emails. HB Gary had to shut down that part of their operation, but it looks like SOMEONE got the contract after all. And it is our tax dollars that pay these 'security contractors'.