Last night on Chris Hayes’ show, Greenwald continued to stick with his “direct access” story in the face of numerous other sources that verified that direct access is actually just a secure FTP folder not unlike Dropbox for transferring files.
Our story is that there is a discrepancy between the relationship that these, that the private sector and the government has, in terms of what the NSA claims and what the technology companies claim. What is definitely true, and follow-up reporting by the Times has proven this, is that there have been all kinds of negotiations about back door access. [...]
I don’t think anybody knows at this point exactly what the nature of those arrangements are.
Uh, yes they do. It’s FTP. Why can’t Greenwald’s IT expert source describe to him what an FTP server is? Or if he has, why does Greenwald refuse to accept the simplicity of such a thing? Agenda, anyone?
Yeah, so Greenwald is still spinning this as the NSA and/or the tech giants lying about what’s going on. Of course. It’s a truly remarkable stubbornness given what’s clearly public knowledge and generally known information at this point.
(By the way, I have another column coming tomorrow instead of today.)