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In reply to the discussion: Journalist Tom Ricks 'Beginning To Believe The Worst' About Greenwald And Snowden [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)57. It is funny, guess he flip flops a lot...this is from a January statement.
"I especially am becoming more sympathetic to Snowden the more current and former American intelligence officials talk about killing Snowden and holding forth in other ways. Bart Gellman, one of the reporters who has broken a lot of Snowden's news, wrote of a confrontation with a self-righteous general last summer, who angrily said to him, "We didn't have another 9/11 [because intelligence enabled warfighters to find the enemy first]. Until you've got to pull the trigger, until you've had to bury your people, you don't have a clue."
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Journalist Tom Ricks 'Beginning To Believe The Worst' About Greenwald And Snowden [View all]
ProSense
Mar 2014
OP
"Journalist Tom Ricks fails to goad Greenwald into discussing a strawman" nt
Democracyinkind
Mar 2014
#3
And the question was being used (incorrectly) to try and undermine his credibility
Maedhros
Mar 2014
#65
He still looks pretty lame for deciding that he's only going to address US issues
treestar
Mar 2014
#89
He wouldn't need it. Brazil won't give him asylum. He can go to Cuba, though. nt
okaawhatever
Mar 2014
#43
Snowden and Greenwald are negative nationalists with the US as their envisioned antagonist.
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#11
Let's see, couple of journalists who have been blacklisted by US Media are supposed to be
librechik
Mar 2014
#13
No, that is not protecting a source. Greenwald could say anything he wants without impacting Snowden
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#24
The initial argument where? Whoever said it is wrong. No one in this thread seems to have said it
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#26
But, Greenwald is too busy Deflecting and collectiing straw.. and you won't hear him say
Cha
Mar 2014
#79
Tom Ricks is "a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank."
bananas
Mar 2014
#77
I guess a lot of people require that their conversations on A be predicated on...
LanternWaste
Mar 2014
#28
Its never been a secret. It was publicly broadcast on omidyar's website
Luminous Animal
Mar 2014
#53
Maybe not DU but it says a lot about the NSA defenders on DU. WAIT, look over there, Putin! n/t
A Simple Game
Mar 2014
#62