Glenn Greenwald: Democrats 'Suddenly Love Leaks,' But Attacked Them Under Obama

[DonViejo]

by Josh Feldman | 12:20 pm, February 19th, 2017

Glenn Greenwald said on CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning that Democrats praising the Trump administration leaks are being pretty big hypocrites.

Greenwald pointed to fellow panelist Carl Bernstein in talking about the value and importance of journalists reporting on important matters based on leaks.

However, he said that people––Democrats in particular––seem to forget that it’s not like President Trump‘s attacks on leaks are without precedent:

“If you look at the last eight years, there has been a very concerted war on not just sources and whistleblowers, but also journalists, implemented by not Donald Trump but by the Obama administration. More sources prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act than in all previous administrations combined. Journalists such as James Rosen at Fox News and Jim Risen at The New York Times and those of us who worked on the Snowden reporting constantly threatened with prosecution or having our phone records subpoenaed and the like. And Democratic officeholders in D.C. were virtually unanimous in the idea that people who leak information that’s classified are villains, they’re traitors, they oughta go to prison.”

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[ret5hd]

1. Conversely, publicans loved leaks under PBO, but suddenly hate them.

[Cha]

21. Good one

[JCanete]

42. Yes absolutely. But we aren't under any illusions why that is. I'm constantly astonished that

Democrats still bash Snowden on this site to this day, harping on the laws he broke with no regard to the laws that our government was breaking, and lying to us about.

[Jamaal510]

2. Not me.

I still think Snowden, Assange, Wikileaks, etc. are just as much low-lives as Trump is.

[mcar]

3. GG is a RW tool

[Cha]

22. Yeah, he always seemed like one but he's totally outed himself now.. as

being a tool for putin and trumputin

[mcar]

32. He really has

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. And Trump loved leaks, too - before the election!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Trump loved leaks like a Russian whore...

two months ago. Piss off snowflake.

[bhikkhu]

6. Leaks that expose and discredit fascism and bigotry; I very much approve

Leaks that undermine free and fair elections, and leaks designed to destabilize legitimate democracies, not so much.

[Adrahil]

12. Right... intention matters.

It's like Snowden. I applauded the release of information on illegal activities. I deplored his release of information on perfectly legal and legitimate operations.

[boston bean]

7. He can fuck himself. God he is an insufferable bastard.

[grantcart]

13. +1

[yardwork]

18. Ditto.

[irisblue]

33. yes he is.

[WinkyDink]

8. Doesn't exonerate Trump, though, does it?

[stopbush]

9. Democrats still don't like GG.

There's the consistency he's looking for.

[Hortensis]

10. Greenwald's leaking his own illiberal, anti-Democrat

wiring. Bless his heart, he can't help himself, and doesn't want to. Not that there are ANY differences at all between the Obama and 45 administrations....

[McCamy Taylor]

11. "Leak" vs whistle blower. Same as terrorist versus "freedom fighter."

Depends on why the info is being disseminated. The "leaks" from the Clinton grand jury come to mind as leaks that are not intended to help. Whistleblowers are trying to protect our democracy.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Eat. My. Shit., Glenn Greenwald.

[Quixote1818]

15. If this was a balanced article he would attack both sides for this not just the Dems

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I use to like Greenwald but he seems to want to damage the Democrats more than Republicans lately and it's disturbing. Is he really more concerned with Democrats right now than with the idiot in the WH????

[OnDoutside]

16. I heard him being interviewed on Democracy Now about this and while I can understand his point of

view, I believe he is basing his opinion on a false equivalency, that lowlife acts perpetrated by Republicans and Trump during the Obama years, negate any requirement for balance when it comes to these criminals. What Democrats in general want to do is to improve people's lives, while there is no low point in the baseness of the Republicans and Trump, even to the extent of destroying America's place in the world by their traitorous acts with Putin. He cannot simply equate one with the other.

[PSPS]

17. Speak for yourself. I prefer a leaky government regardless of the party in power.

[Dr. Strange]

23. Amen.

[IADEMO2004]

19. Unchanged Glenn Greenwald asshole then asshole now.

[still_one]

20. Getting a little touchy there aren't you Greenwald. Talk about hypocrites, he should look in the

mirror at himself

[roamer65]

24. Greenwald is a Russian whore...fuck him.

[Trumpocalypse]

25. Can he quote any major Dem who

has encouraged leaking the way Trump did during the campaign. Greenwald is just parroting a GOP talking point.

[JHan]

26. lol shut up Glenn

[struggle4progress]

27. Still clueless after all these years

[catbyte]

28. Blow it out your nose, Greenwald. Utterly insufferable.

[LenaBaby61]

29. Glenn Greenwald: Democrats 'Suddenly Love Leaks,' But Attacked Them Under Obama.

Glenn Greenwald= &

[stevenleser]

30. Greenwald is the Hypocrite. He's the one who insists on nuance when its him being evaluated

Everyone else should be viewed under the same broad brush as if both situations are the same.

Let's all not forget this just happened:

https://goo.gl/LpijwY

Greenwald complained that the two situations aren't the same. He insisted on nuance.

Here is why its OK that Trump intel officials are leaking and its not OK with Snowden

- Trump is at war with the intelligence community and is trying to undermine them

- Trump and his campaign had inappropriate contact with Russia

- Intel officials have been trying to brief Trump and he seems resistant to taking their advice

- Intel officials are discussing this among themselves to try to figure out how to handle this

- Intel officials aren't looking for publicity for THEMSELVES

Whereas

- Snowden never attempted to approach the President

- His information was not new

- Snowden never attempted to discuss this with colleagues to determine if there was another way to handle the situation. He never made use of the inspector general, he never went to a senator, he never did anything. He wanted to play the hero.

[JTFrog]

35. +1 nt

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Trump likes leaks

Trump takes dump in cans that Trump likes
Trump makes plans in cans his rump likes

Trump likes ladies who leak on red beds

Trump hates leaks that fall on Trumps tweets
Trump likes leaks that fall on Trumps sheets

[JTFrog]

34. Poor baby has a sad that Poooty's gig is up. nt

[still_one]

36. The Democrats did NOT SAY THEY LOVE LEAKS. What they did say is they do NOT like Russian

interference with our election, or possible collusion of the trump administration with the Russians which may compromise our security

As is typical of Greenwald, when stories don't go the way he likes them, he distorts the focus to distract from the main point.

For several months now, Greenwald has been writing stories to pan the possibility of Russian interference and connection to the trump administration, going so far as to cast negative dispersions on the intelligence

If it turns out that there was Russian interference in our election, and the trump administration was also involved with that, it will be interesting to see how Greenwald tries to squirm his way out of the BS he has been spewing

[Demonaut]

40. collusion, it is determined he also is on the payroll of putin

[still_one]

41. no doubt

[Blue Idaho]

37. I'm having a lot of trouble

Caring what Glen Greenwald thinks...

[herding cats]

38. The DNC leaked emails were done by Putin to take down the US.

As Greenwald knows, since he's all too aware of what Russia was up to here in the US, and abroad.

The IC community leaking in an attempt to expose Trump's Russian ties is in Greenwald's eyes the same thing? Really, Glenn Greenwald, your biases are showing and it's a tad embarrassing to witness.

Oh, and the Democrats were involved in intel meetings which covered all of this, but their either not leaking, or they are and they're whistleblowers. If it's the latter then the hypocrite here is Greenwald.

[Demonaut]

39. please fuck the hell off Glen, a foreign power made the leaks during the campaign

you-fucking-moron