You have to wonder why other journalists rarely do the job Wemple did in this case. Are they afraid of Greenwald’s slash-and-burn smear tactics against critics, or simply more interested in the clicks and pageviews they know his fear-mongering pieces will drive to their websites?

I’m gonna go with “Clicks and pageviews.”

I know enough “civilians”, for want of a better word when it comes to political stuff, whose understanding of Snowden-gate begins and ends with “The NSA spies on everything we do.”

So, in that case, Mission Accomplished, Glenn.