Greenwald: Approve or Disapprove?

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20. Greenwald has an agenda: it is to split voters away from the major parties and get them to vote

libertarian. With that aim, he constantly misrepresents and distorts facts -- and when he is caught, he simply blusters and never retracts. Greenwald was an early adapter of the crackpot theory that the Swedish allegations against Assange were part of an Obama plot to forward-extradite Assange to the US. He pushed a crackpot interpretation of the NDAA sections discussing indefinite detention as evidence Obama had a plan to indefinitely detain US citizens. He has advanced a crackpot view of the charges against bizarre wannabe Barrett Brown, as proving an Obama administration was conducting some unprecedented attack on journalism. And in preparation for the Snowden affair, Greenwald was pushing the crackpot idea that the NSA was recording all US phone conversations

Greenwald is obviously a bright man with rhetorical talent. But his habitual dishonesty undermines the value of much of what he says