Discussion: Glenn Greenwald's Website Loses A National Security Blogger

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Snowden is in the Ukraine vicinity, why not throw him a bone. He may have some juicy insider info too, knowing a little about him.

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Yeh, Snowden could ask Putin another question. Or Snowden could tell us what he told Putin about how to invade the Ukraine and hide it from U.S. intelligence.

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Or Putin could fly Snowden to the Ukraine via one of our friendly nations, on accident.

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The lemmings begin jumping the ship! Earlier than I thought! Then again who goes there anyway!

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If the civil liberties slot is open, maybe Greenwald could step into the breach with a multi-part investigation into how Brazil honors the civil liberties of it’s citizens on the streets and on the internet.

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I can imagine Marcy Wheeler’s marching orders; report on national security, but not on the damage the Snowden betrayal has done, and report on civil liberties, but not in Russia or Brazil. Good reason never to have accepted the job.

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Maybe Marcy’s running for Congress?

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I have to say Empty Wheel is one of my favorite blogs. Marcy is always sharing juicy details from all walks of bureaucratic incompetence and malfeasance - corporate, civilian, and military.

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Wheeler has certainly made a wise decision to leave Greenwald’s outfit. I just read the article she wrote for them and it reminds me of Greenwald: a tangle of innuendos and quotes by officials and journalists, then subsequent assumptions that the innuendos are facts. What a mess. The whole goal is to finish when a conclusion that Obama is as bad as Bush and Democrats are as bad as Republicans and the only people you can trust are libertarians. Foolish and boring.

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this story has been up for 5 hours, and only has 10 comments. It’s gossip, and yet it is on the featured section of the home page.

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The money spends easier when you’re not tied down at work.

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That’d be timely, what with the World Cup coming up!

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They’ve signed a number of well known writers besides Greenwald and yet, months in, there’s virtually no content on the site. New stories are posted every 3-5 days on average. That would be quite slow for a personal blog let alone what was supposed to be a major new news outlet. It’s really pretty shocking given the amount of money that supposedly has been sunk into it.

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Millions Fail to Show For ‘Operation Greenwald Clickbait’

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While I don’t mind you proclaiming yourself “Foolish and boring”, your little libertarian fetish is a waste of time.

Obama is worse than Bush. The “more effective evil”, as it has been said.

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I’ve read TPM for more than a decade, and I’ve found it most valuable when I think it’s wrong. Honest progressives can disagree about national security, secrecy, and privacy – these are complex issues, worth debating.

Gossiping about some rival news organization’s amicable staffing departures? I’m truly sad that the level of discourse here has fallen so low that it’s impossible to care.

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As a libertarian hoping to overthrow the government, I can see how you might think Obama worse than Bush; I mean Bush almost did the job for you.

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If you, “as a libertarian hoping to overthrow the government”, as you say, could pick between the one political party in America today, which would it be?

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Marcy Wheeler was their National Security blogger?

That’s like having Ron Bailey from Reason as your climate blogger.