re: #376 JordanRules

What was he talking about and what did you find fascinating?

Also too, fuck GG.

So, a couple weeks ago PSW had Ben Rhodes on talking about Snowden and spying/leaks/etc. Greenwald asked to come on to address some of the issues raised. So there was a lot of talk about how the Snowden documents were released, and how Snowden ended up in Russia, why he went to Hong Kong then Moscow. There was also some talk about reporters going to the government with information before publishing, and the government’s tendency to overly classify documents (one example they gave was that lunch schedules of NSA employees was classified).

One of the things that the Crooked Media podcasts (Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, With Friends Like These) has been able to do is have actual interesting conversations that don’t turn into talking point bullshit screaming matches. There’s actual nuance and room for constructive disagreements. I honestly hadn’t paid too much attention to Greenwald to date, and know him mostly from the characterizations I’ve seen on some blogs, so it was interesting to hear directly from him.