The Wikileaks vs Greenwald Twitter Fight: Julian Assange Threatens To Reveal Deadly NSA Info

[JI7]

<Assange lashed out against The Intercept and its editor John Cook, suggesting that it’s the prerogative of the citizens living in the redacted nation to revolt over NSA spying. Appelbaum jumped in and accused The Intercept of deliberately trying to make Wikileaks look comparatively extreme by redacting the information. Suffice to say, Wikileaks and Assange do quite well beclowning themselves without any help.

Greenwald hit back, tweeting that he published four of the five names, when The Washington Post (wisely, prudently) redacted all of the nations. He followed up by writing that he and The Intercept strongly believed this information “could harm innocents” and that it would lead to “deaths.” Greenwald elaborated that the “small company involved” in the data collection could be in danger of an attack.

Remarkably, Assange accused Greenwald of essentially being a Pentagon shill (that’s rich) and, wait for it, a racist.

But that’s not the most jaw-dropping moment, believe it or not.

The fracas ended when Assange tweeted the following announcement:

@GGreenwald @johnjcook We will reveal the name of the censored country whose population is being mass recorded in 72 hours.>

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/the-wikileaks-vs-greenwald-twitter-fight-julian-assange-threatens-to-reveal-deadly-nsa-info/

[DonCoquixote]

1. wow. Rockstar ego

and as usual, Assange does not give a shit. Let's hope that mr "I raped a girl and am still considered COOL" gets his just desserts someday. It is also amusing to see GG get called a racist and shill.

[arely staircase]

2. public clash of gigantic egos was inevitable in this case

especially when one is a prisoner of his own making (two are if you count Snowden) and Greenwald is about to get paid for all their trouble.