LXer: Glenn Greenwald: 'A Lot' More NSA Documents to Come

LXer · 01-06-2014, 03:20 PM

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<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Nearly seven months after journalist and privacy activist Glenn Greenwald publicized Edward Snowden's first revelations of the vast scope of the NSA's digital surveillance, his life has changed absolutely.

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astrogeek · 01-06-2014, 03:57 PM

Yawn... It's all part of the show folks. Mock dissenting so-called-journalism.

For anyone interested in the meat and bones and truth of the matter, read A Press as Deadly as The State, PayPal Is a Huge Weapon for the Powerful, and The One Percent Solution: Oligarchs to the Rescue!, if you dare.

Like Google, Greenwald is not your friend...

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...But even the exposure of government misdeeds is to be kept within discreet limits by our new-style,
media-savvy dissidents, who, like Greenwald, constantly assert they would never publish secrets that might
“harm national security” or interfere with the “legitimate operations” of our neo-Stasis. Guardian editor and
dissident hero Alan Rusbridger made that clear in his recent appearance before a Parliamentary committee
investigating the Snowden revelations. As Arthur Silber, one of the most insightful political writers of our
day, notes, the many press plaudits for Rusbridger's “bold” testimony overlooked the editor’s shocking
admission that the Guardian has only published "one percent" of the Snowden material, while dutifully
consulting "the FBI, the GCHQ, the White House and the Cabinet Office on more than 100 occasions before the
publication of stories." Rusbridger also assured MPs that his paper will soon stop publishing stories from
the Snowden cache.

Greenwald promises that his upcoming book on Snowden will provide a few more all-important revelations that
the public absolutely must know (but which he must unfortunately withhold from us until the sale date). Yet
as Silber points out, even with a few extra dollops of data here and there, it’s now obvious that only a
tiny percentage of the massive Snowden archive of spy-state malfeasance will ever be revealed.

As always, our betters – in this case, not government apparatchiks but knee-capping oligarchs and
government-consulting journalists – will let us know whatever modicum of truth they deem fit for our
limited understanding. - Chris Floyd