A weird exchange with Tony Pierce, who insisted on misinterpreting what I wrote about Snowden today:

The 2009 chat logs published by Ars Technica reveal another huge discrepancy in Snowden’s claims http://t.co/hjxlpWtxbe

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 26, 2013

As someone who in 2009 was writing things polar opposite as you are now, @Green_Footballs, you may wanna give Snowden a break on this one.

— Tony Pierce (@busblog) June 26, 2013

@busblog That’s not the point - he said he was already planning to leak in 2008, but in 2009 he said leakers “should be shot in the balls.”

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 26, 2013

My point is you, @Green_Footballs, are the poster boy for “shitty shit happened, so I changed my stance”. No one else should get that pass?

— Tony Pierce (@busblog) June 26, 2013

@busblog That’s not the point I’m making at all. Please read what I’m writing.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 26, 2013

Conversations with Greensnow supporters always seem to go like this. You end up buried in a pile of straw men.