Greenwald Eloquently Defends His Actions and Those of NSA Whistleblower

By Staff Pick – YouTube

Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC's Attempted Propaganda ... Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who broke the stories on the NSA's phone and internet surveillance programs last week and helped reveal on Sunday the identity of Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who is behind the NSA leaks, speaks with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski about his interviews with Snowden. – YouTube/MSNBC
Dominant Social Theme: Nothing to see here ... move along.
Free-Market Analysis: In this clip, reporter Glenn Greenwald defends his actions in publishing the accusations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The interview is notable for Greenwald's defiant eloquence. It is very difficult for someone to speak clearly and articulately on complex subjects with nary a stammer or murmur and to do so extemporaneously. Greenwald, a fine writer and courageous individual, manages to do so.
In the process, he answers criticisms that the various spy programs the US has embarked upon are either legal or appropriate. They are not, he points out, not simply from a moral standpoint but more importantly from a constitutional one. Greenwald is a US citizen.
Snowden, a young man who had access to a broad cross section of government intelligence, went public recently with something everyone at a certain level in the mainstream media has long known about but declined to publicize: That US security is embarked on an extremely broad monitoring not just of foreign terrorist suspects but US citizens, as well.
In fact, it has been fascinating to watch this authoritarian tale unfold in the past days. The argument of those defending these incomprehensibly vast spy programs is that they are necessary and just.
But these arguments begin with 9/11 and there are plenty of questions about just who committed 9/11 and why. Since the US government has never comprehensively investigated the issue and the FBI continues to hold massive amounts of uninspected videos and paperwork related to 9/11 it is very difficult to conclude that the government story – such as it is – constitutes an accurate narrative.
Additionally, many of the so-called terrorist actions that have taken place since 9/11 have been shown either conclusively or circumstantially to have been supported by the US itself and its NATO allies. This is especially true of the African and Middle Eastern wars that the US has covertly supported – sometimes giving direct support to Al Qaeda terrorists, as it did in Libya.
It is hard to avoid the suspicion that US leaders and their backers are to some extent abetting the very terrorist facilities that the US military-intel-industrial complex is deriving a vast income stream from purportedly opposing.
What Greenwald and others also believe is true is that most of the activity of the West's spy campaign is actually aimed at the West not at terrorists. The subtext of these accusations has to do with the globalist impulse that is enshrined in virtually all aspects of major Western institutions in the modern era.
The idea is that citizens have to be controlled and monitored for their own good and that resistance to globalism needs to be stamped out over time, or that those who wish to oppose it are intimidated into silence and inaction.
By releasing Snowden's accusations, Greenwald has seemingly placed "sand in the gears" of this globalist surge. Nonetheless, our opinion remains reluctantly that Greenwald's actions are part of a larger dominant social theme to enshrine the very promotions he is protesting via some sort of determined Hegelian dialectic.
Edward Snowden: Limited Hangout or a Globalist Step-Back?
It's hard to believe that the Washington Post and other major newspapers now discussing this subject are doing so extemporaneously. The Post, especially, is a facility of US intel and usually reflects the perspective of Washington's globalist-oriented insiders.
This melancholy perception does not detract from the eloquence of Greenwald nor even the courage of Snowden, as both may be everything they seem to be (certainly we have no reason to doubt Greenwald). But nonetheless, being professional meme-watchers, we cannot shake the suspicion that this vast public discussion is being countenanced by the very same globalists who seemingly own and run the mainstream media.
The good news, as we have already stated, is that this may be seen as a kind of "limited hangout" that those in power felt necessary to sponsor or at least tolerate due to what the Internet has already revealed about these massive and subservice programs.
Conclusion: We have attributed this to what we call the "Internet Reformation." It continues.
(Video from XRepublicTV's YouTube user channel.)