I used to be a huge Greenwald fan. I think he handled the Snowden era like a total pro.
But lately the guy just sounds crazy. His takes are all incredibly predictable: Biden bad, Trump actually good for this one weird reason, libs hypocrites, Obama is a murderer, etc. All the same, boring, tired takes.
I've puzzled over some of Glenn's recent writing too. But I think I'm starting to get the picture.
Although he's certainly left-leaning -- he likes Bernie Sanders -- what really motivates him is attacking the complacency of the center.
I don't find him boring, usually, though sometimes I fail to relate to something he's exercised about. But he definitely has a different bias than most journalists. I think this is very useful.
He’s also way too dismissive of Russia’s influence. They’re way more than a “medium regional power”. Dismissing the country with one of the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world and one of the most significant and extensive intelligence apparatuses this way raises serious questions about his impartiality.
No, he's talking about reality, and you're talking about the mirror-image of reality.
The CCP engaged in "elite capure" with Hunter Biden, while Joe Biden and his advisors stood by.
The libs are hypocrites. See above.
Obama's failure to honor our treaty with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoals resulted in the 9-dash line takeover of the South China Sea, resulting in the largest military buildup in the region since WW2. And none of our treaty allies trust us now.
It appears HN readers have no idea how far off course US politicians and elites are. When journalists from Venezuela and Colombia come to the US and say, "It's just like home." then you know there's a serious problem.
Hugo Chavez hacked our election from the grave. Oh and he also manufactured millions of paper ballots that match the electionic tabulation almost perfectly.
One of the core themes in the latter half of the book was how the government obtains zero-days, and then has a "committee of government and industry experts" that think about responsible disclosures, assuming the government is willing to "concede" the "national security advantage" of not disclosing the vulnerability.
Most vulnerabilities don't get disclosed.
Most systems go unpatched.
Just so the USG can exploit foreign systems.
It's very possible this particular vulnerability was found, but it's potential for spying outweighed the concern for patching.
When people notice an influential employee that works at a company is active in a community, that presents them with an opportunity to talk to a living breathing person that might actually respond to questions that they feel have been ignored by official channels. People ask questions like this all the time. Unfortunately, sometimes its the only way to get someone at a company to actually help you.
