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In reply to the discussion: Is Glenn Greenwald a liar? [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)The KOS link is a single blogger's opinion that Snowden (and therefore Greenwald) couldn't be telling the truth. There's no verifiable proof of this, just the blogger's opinion, bolstered by an NSA report (they tell the truth at NSA, right?).
National Review: really? John O Sullivan? Really? The same guy who wants to see Obama's birth certificate because he's from Kenya? The same guy who writes for the Weekly Standard and American Conservative, and was an aide to Margaret Thatcher? Aside from his bio, I read the article in its entirety, and he exposes no lies whatsoever.
The Nation: there's no accusation of a lie here. There is an accusation that Greenwald misunderstood what an SFTP server is. Greenwald answers the accusation thusly:
The Guardian has not revised any of our articles and, to my knowledge, has no intention to do so. Thats because we did not claim that the NSA document alleging direct collection from the servers was true; we reported - accurately - that the NSA document claims that the program allows direct collection from the companies servers. Before publishing, we went to the internet companies named in the documents and asked about these claims. When they denied it, we purposely presented the story as one of a major discrepancy between what the NSA document claims and what the internet companies claim, as the headline itself makes indisputably clear:
The NSA document says exactly what we reported. Just read it and judge for yourself (PRISM is collection directly from the servers of these US service providers). Its endearingly naive how some people seem to think that because government officials or corporate executives issue carefully crafted denials, this resolves the matter.
New Republic: this is the only linked article I haven't read in its entirety. I haven't read it all, because it seems to be more about advocacy journalism vs objective journalism, and not about some accusation of lying on Greenwald's part.
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