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In reply to the discussion: Cryptome pushes Greenwald's ZOMG button. [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)are "swooners," "Tiger Beat" aficionados (Tiger Beat?? Can they get any lamer?) and other such mindless insults have affixed the same level of swoonage they decry in others towards Glen Greenwald and Ed Snowden.
And as Young is the latest to dare to question Greenwald's methods and/or motives, he will be ignored by the "Constitution-loving, whistleblower-championing fierce advocates" who decry lockstepping but (hilariously) seem to always be doing just that when it comes to Greenwald without the slightest level of awareness or irony.
Your questions are profound:
Are oligarchs excused when they do a public service - even when they stand to increase their wealth as a result?
Compensation notwithstanding, if there is a public need-to-know, how is said public better served? By dribbling out bits and pieces of information, Greenwald-style or by dumping the entire docket all at once, Ellsberg-style?
Sometimes just asking the right questions is its own answer. And in this case, it would have to be because I don't think you'll get any other ones.