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Yet Another Highly Misleading GCHQ/NSA Article From the Intercept

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simoom2/18/2014 12:33:54 pm PST

As always, when Greenwald writes up a WikiLeaks-focused piece, he failed to disclose his financial relationship to them (that his org, Freedom of the Press Foundation, has been funneling them money for years):

pressfreedomfoundation.org

Beat the Financial Blockade: Donate to WikiLeaks

In late 2010, in response to unofficial government pressure, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal cut WikiLeaks off from receiving donations after WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of secret US State Department cables, despite the fact that its publications were fully protected by the First Amendment.

Freedom of the Press Foundation takes donations on behalf of WikiLeaks, and has pledged to do the same for any news organization in a similar situation, to prevent unjust and extra-legal financial censorship of the press.