Monday, May 26, 2014

Greenwald's Finale:

Naming Victims of Surveillance. 

Real Clear Politics, Toby Harnden
Greenwald said the names would be published via The Intercept, a website funded by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder and chairman of eBay. Greenwald left The Guardian, which published most of the Snowden revelations, last autumn to work for Omidyar.

“As with a fireworks show, you want to save your best for last,” Greenwald told GQ magazine. “The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicoloured hues.”
Good. I cannot wait. I've had a difficult time appreciating Greenwald but I'm coming around. Here is the link to firstlook.org where  The Intercept is hosted.

The article does not specify when, I assume soon. Most likely in drip, drip, drip form as Breitbart made popular, for ease of digestion, and to allow things to sink in, to induce people to take positions, and then see their own names. This is going to be good.

14 comments:

chickelit said...

Please watch the posting queue. I queued a post for 7 PM and then this one appeared two minutes later.

I withdrew mine for 8 PM

edutcher said...

Yes, let's keep this front and center as the election gets closer.

Chip Ahoy said...

Apologies.

Chip Ahoy said...

But I must add, sometimes a post sits there with no time indicated. In that case, then what?

I'm Full of Soup said...

I wonder if Romney's campaign is on the list?

chickelit said...

Chip Ahoy said...
But I must add, sometimes a post sits there with no time indicated. In that case, then what?

We delete them all and let Meade sort 'em out.
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Seriously? Whoever queued first should probably post first, unless they've walked away from it for hours w/o putting a post time. That's how I try to roll.

chickelit said...

Anyways, about Greenwald and Snowden -- there's something unlikable about those chaps which gets in the way of their message. I can't quite put my finger on it but it must be something intuitive like what girls saw in the SB killer.

edutcher said...

AJ Lynch said...

I wonder if Romney's campaign is on the list?

To ask the question is to answer it.

XRay said...

"...the sky is all covered in spectacular multicoloured hues.""

And perhaps, like fireworks, it is all in the moment. Snowden the traitor, Greenwald the sock puppet. No matter how right they may be there history belies.

Chip Ahoy said...

something unlikeable about those two

I got a new attitude. Yes. It is possible. A brand new attitude. It comes from this video of a debate between tired old fart Michael Hayden + nastyass bastard dissimilating turd lawyer Alan Dershowitz VS bright and interesting self-depricating nerd (emphasized some 5 times) Alexis Ohanian who wears orange shoes, oi, + the amiable and reasoned and logical and correct Glenn Greenwald.

It is the first video I ever watched that actually starts at the 30.00 mark. What a bunch of crap in front of the good stuff.

Every time NSA Director Michael Hayden speaks his thread bare "national security" bullshit to justify what they are doing one's impulse is to punch his ugly face. So to avoid that impulse overtaking my ability to carry on skip skip skippy skip skip. And every time Dershowitz speaks my impulse is to smash my laptop to bits. He is such a wearisome ass. A giant prolapsed asshole with a giant hemorrhoid attached glowing and pulsating and talking. So skip skip skippy skip skip for him too and that makes the video go much faster and smoother. When the millionaire nerd Reddit co-founder Ohanian speaks it is almost trite, but not quite trite, but nearly so. And when Glenn Greenwald speaks ))) KABLAM ((( He flat ain't havin' it. He smears Hayden and Dershowitz like a... like a... thing that gets totally smeared into a puddle of piss.

Most impressive.

Clear as crystal.

You know, when crystal is all shinned up. That's Glenn Greenwald in the video. His parts are the best.

N-E-S-T-L-E-S

Greenwald's parts are very best.

Then the other thing that changed my attitude today is this GQ interview that spreads over 6 pages, and I didn't mind at all clicking through. The interview is in advance of his book The Man Who Knows Too Much. Glenn comes across in the interview as down to Earth, likable, concerned, smart, open and honest. It is very unlike his writing that I am familiar with. He explains his motivations and his actions. He describes his early family life. He talks about his twelve dogs, his life in Brazil. His parent's concern. His fears, his hopes. He becomes human. The interview made me like him.

A lot. Boom. There, I said it. I honestly felt I had discovered through the GQ interview, a kindred spirit, in his distrust, his perceptions, his opinions about Washington and media, his contrariness, his confrontation and his attitude.

Oddly, the interview garners only 20 comments on GQ and they're all useless poo. They all missed what I got out of the interview.

XRay said...

No disagreement about Dershowitz, as I watched the entire OJ trial. Nor Hayden much, a munchkin. A sockpuppet being honest, not so much. Did he find God, or similar, to cause this transformation. I mean really, the evils of the world were a sudden surprise.

deborah said...

I've come to appreciate Greenwald. He reminds me of Daniel Larison because they both tell it straight to their own sides. They're not for rah! rah! team politics.

deborah said...

Chip:
" Most likely in drip, drip, drip form as Breitbart made popular, for ease of digestion, and to allow things to sink in, to induce people to take positions, and then see their own names."

Yes, this could be fun.

Trooper York said...

My politics couldn't be farther away from Greenwald but he is on the side of the angels on this one.

The national security state has to be stopped in its track.

I think Rand Paul can be the one to do that. I would vote for him on this issue alone and swallow everything else. It is that important.