Carl Bernstein: Greenwald 'out of line' (updated)

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50. This is what Glenn Greenwald doesn't understand about classified information...

Once classified information, no matter how damaging, or valuable is taken from a secure network, it is compromised. It is like if Edward Snowden was a bank robber, and stated he hasn't spent most of the money he stole, it doesn't give relief to the police. It doesn't matter if Snowden returns most of the information he took without releasing it to the public, he would be charged with everything he took using his security clearance. I don't think Greenwald understands that, the damage has already been done.

At this point, this is becoming a media battle. Greenwald is stating stuff, that he may find shocking, as he did in the La Nación about US meta data acquiring and eavesdropping in Latin America countries. However the LA Times has reported back in 2007 about how Mexico Government was recording and storing data and cell phone communications with the help of the US via the State Department. I don't know about other governments, but the US could have the same deal in place with its allies in Latin America.