So Reality Winner, former NSA contractor, is in federal prison for leaking classified information — for five years and three months, the longest sentence of any whistleblower in history. She gave documents on how Russia had attempted to hack vendors of election machinery and software to The Intercept , which completely bungled basic security procedures (according to a recent New York Times piece from Ben Smith, the main fault lay with Matthew Cole and Richard Esposito ), leading to her capture within hours. Winner recently contracted COVID-19 in prison, and is reportedly suffering some lingering aftereffects. Glenn Greenwald has been furiously denying that he had anything at all to do with the Winner clusterfuck, and I recently got in an argument with him about it on Twitter. I read a New York story about Winner, which clearly implies that she was listening to the Intercepted podcast of March 22, 2017 , where Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill expressed skepticism about Russia actual...
Another idealistic, head in the sand liberal. Someday you will learn that the Peace Corps just exists so that the US can pretend it cares about third world countries while actually exploiting all of their resources to continue its quality of life. You allow the US to continue its Nazi-like oppression of the rest of the world without a qualm. Glenn Beck may not always make sense, but at least he doesn't accept the duplicitous actions of the government at face value. You are actually causing the continued poverty of the people you claim to be helping.
ReplyDeleteI like that you admit off the top that Glenn Beck doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteThe ideological head space of your comment is vaguely troubling--since when have Glenn Beck fans given a shit about third-world countries? Or known that they exist? I would think that if Peace Corps were really bleeding tiny, defenseless countries of all their natural resources, Beck would be all for it. (America FIRST!)