House GOPer Calls Glenn Greenwald 'A Thief Selling Stolen Material'

[Capt. Obvious]

A House Republican accused journalist Glenn Greenwald Tuesday of selling stolen material because news outlets are paying for access to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

“For personal gain, he’s now selling his access to information, that’s how they’re terming it," House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI), said after a hearing that included discussion of the national security leaks, Politico reported.

"A thief selling stolen material is a thief.”

Rogers alleged that "other nations' press services" had provided information indicating that Greenwald had put the Snowden documents up for sale.

For his part, Greenwald firmly denied the accusation in another interview with Politico. He has been working as a freelance journalist under contract, he said, not selling the documents.

TPM

[hobbit709]

1. House Republican needs to take a good hard look in the mirror before calling names.

[JRLeft]

2. This is something that both parties agree on.

[riderinthestorm]

3. He's a reporter ffs. Has Congress forgotten the 1st Amendment already?

And if this is the direction Congress is really going then any reporter getting paid for a story is similarly in jeopardy.

Every thinking citizen who cares about a free press should be alarmed.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. What does the 1st Amendment have to do with ...

the selling of information, stolen or otherwise?

Mind you ... I am not taking a position that gg is selling the documents.

[riderinthestorm]

9. He's not selling the documents. That's just made-up bullshit

As I read it, Rogers is trying to chill Greenwalds reporting on the NSA documents.

Rogers is making stuff up to interfere with Greenwald is how I read it.

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. Okay. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

13. He is getting paid for writing articles. Just like the journalists at WaPo and NY Times.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. But the allegation isn't ...

gg is selling articles about the documents ... the allegations is gg is selling the, or access to the, documents.

[Luminous Animal]

15. Yes. That is the allegation made by right-wing reationary Rogers.

He, of course, provides no proof. And really it makes no sense. Greenwald's byline has been on media reports around the world whenever the NSA docs that are in his posession are used in that report.

There has been no "wild card" reporting. That is, there has been no reports done by a journalist or news agency NOT confirmed to have access.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. Your point? ...

Is it really that hard for you to believe that a journalist would sell access to documents that they have in their possession/control?

[Luminous Animal]

19. My point is, there is zero evidence presented.

And it should be easy to get that evidence. One signed affidavit would do.

[G_j]

4. not going there,

you know, saying that people who don't like Greenwald must love Mike Rogers?
Not going there, because that kind of argument is intellectually dishonest, and just plain idiotic.
Now if he said he liked Greenwald....

[Capt. Obvious]

7. There would be multiple OPs pointing that fact out

[mother earth]

6. And what has been "stolen" from an unsuspecting "democratic" citizenry? Hypocrisy rules. nt

[Fumesucker]

8. The argument has been made that if you agree with Republicans on something then you are one

I think it's an interesting but not necessarily valid argument.

[whatchamacallit]

10. Of course this will be ignored by the boglodytes who play that brain dead game every chance they get

When they agree with republicans it's a "mature bipartisan stance".

[Capt. Obvious]

18. There's also the reverse gotcha

some liberal hero supposedly did something that they like.

There's a new thread out now praising Bernie Sanders for cutting food stamps.

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. No ...

on the rare occasion that I find myself agreeing with a republican ... on anything ... I just say to myself, "Wow ... I agree with that republican on that" and then continue my argument with my fellow Democrats. What I don't do is run to a Democratic message board trumpeting that I agree with a republican ... as if citing my agreement with a group that I find so wrong, so often, will increase my rightness on a particular issue.

But that is just me!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. OTOH. What has the NSA stolen from us? Oh, just our privacy and security

from warrantless search and seizure.