My Monday column begins like so:
First, there was Glenn Greenwald the earnest yet insufferable litigator-style blogger. Then there was Glenn Greenwald the world famous bombshell news reporter. And now there’s Glenn Greenwald the unhinged, conspiratorial enforcer-in-chief for Edward Snowden. Indeed Greenwald has become Snowden’s personal Luca Brasi: his fiercely loyal foot-soldier and de facto PR flack.
Even though Greenwald insists that Snowden shouldn’t be debated and discussed, he once again made Snowden The Story by issuing the following threat during an interview with La Nacion, an Argentinean newspaper:
“Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had,” [...]
“The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.”
That’d be Greenwald jumping the shark. Maybe a fleet of sharks. So what does this tell us? [READ MORE]