re: #43 Charles Johnson

Not surprising at all.

.@KenDilanianLAT they’ve been exaggerating, getting tech details wrong, etc., from day 1. Not surprising that they’re wrong again.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 29, 2013

We can go back through your postings here and see all the technical details they got wrong. We can see all the exaggerated headlines and content released that directly contradicts their claims, and on and on.

What we know for sure - Snowden got his hands on materials he had no right to access - at or above his clearance level, and dumped them into Greenwald’s lap and Greenwald had little understanding of what he was viewing so he went ahead and used the documents to support his narrative that the US was doing real bad things including spying on Americans in the US, that the NSA was unsupervised (it wasn’t), that the FISC was rubber stamping decisions (it wasn’t), and that NSA officials could run roughshod over American civil liberties (it really can’t).

At the same time, he would proffer that the US was spying on allies and enemies alike and it’s not newsworthy since the NSA and its predecessor was doing that all along, and our allies and enemies alike are doing the same to us, though we’d like to think that our secrets are safe.

Well, the only thing Greenwald’s succeeded in doing is poisoning the well and degraded our relations with our allies and undermined our ability to gather intel about enemies and potential threats by exposing means and methods.

But other than that, he’s been on the ball….