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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Bullsh*t!’ Greenwald and Iraq Vet Blow Up on Real Time over Snowden Leaks
During Friday nights Real Time, Glenn Greenwald battled Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq War veteran and founder of Iraq and Afghansitan Veterans of America, in a massive shouting match over whether Edward Snowdens leaks damaged the country and helped the terrorists. And even Bill Maher had to push back on Greenwald, citing a Bush-era national security official he trusts who said Snowden actually did help the terrorists.
Rieckhoff was bothered by the fact that Snowdens hiding in Russia. Greenwald shot back, That is total bullshit! They fought over why Snowden had to flee and the systematic attack on whistleblowers in the United States. Rieckhoff shouted, How do you know the information he revealed did not cost American lives?
They kept going back-and-forth over what Snowden did, with Greenwald asking somewhat bewilderedly, So were just supposed to take the governments word? Rieckhoff responded, And were supposed to take your word?
The video at the link
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bullsht-greenwald-and-iraq-vet-blow-up-on-real-time-over-snowden-leaks/
kysrsoze
(6,024 posts)Reickhoff strikes me as the "U.S. Govt does no wrong"-type, unless it has to do with the VA. He seems over his head when he discusses stuff like this, b/c he didn't give Greenwald anything factual - just notions/assertions, and came off that way in prior interviews. I'd trust Greenwald over Reickhoff, has Reickhoff doesn't have any inside knowledge of any of this.
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(47,551 posts)the real damage that Snowden caused. In casualty and in exposure of top secrets, not the damage to our ego or the disclosure about spying on us.
I also agreed, and stated here before, that for someone who cares about personal liberty to hide first in China and than in Russia - those bastions of personal liberty, one has to question his real motives and whether he has/had foreign operators.