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Glenn Greenwald's Big NSA Story Gets Squashed. Wonder Why? I Mean, Can't You Guess?
On Monday, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald let the
news slip via Twitter that his long-awaited NSA story was to be
published on The Intercept at midnight.
By Tuesday morning, much
to the dismay of myself and many others it appeared that the site -
which since its rollout has been disappointly devoid of new material -
has caved to government pressure tactics did not post the story.
According to a rather cryptic Tweet by Greenwald later on Monday,
"After 3 months working on our story, USG today suddenly began making
new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before
publishing". Might any of those claims be based on trumped up charges
that publication would play right into the hands of the "terrorists" and
could a permanent delay be in the works?
While I have remained a
skeptic to the allegations that the new First Look Media venture that
lured Greenwald with the siren song of creating a new and uncompromising
investigative journalism forum that was an alternative to the
entrenched corrupt state-corporate media the pulling of the big story
only serves to bolster them.
When you throw in with the
billionaire wolves you will sooner or later being devoured and EBay
founder Pierre Omidyar's agenda has already been found by some, for
example journalist Chris Floyd to be suspect with support to both the
coup government in Kiev as well as the right-wing regime of the newly
elected Narendra Modi of India.
The problem is that at the end of
the day all of these one-percenter elite pigs stick together and
Greenwald should have been far more judicious in his association with
one of them.
It would have been a brilliant touch were the story
of NSA surveillance of domestic political dissidents and well known
figures were to have broken during the week of the orgy of flag-sucking
excess that is the Fourth of July and Greenwald may have ill-advisedly
tipped his hand during that interview with GQ "The Man Who Knows Too
Much" when he alluded to fireworks:
I think we will end the big
stories in about three months or so [June or July 2014]. I like to think
of it as a fireworks show: You want to save your best for last. There's
a story that from the beginning I thought would be our biggest, and I'm
saving that.
The last one is the one where the sky is all
covered in spectacular multicolored hues. This will be the finale, a big
missing piece. Snowden knows about it and is excited about it.
For now at least the fireworks show has been postponed, with the
incessant fear-mongering that has now overtaken the USA!, USA!, USA!
over the new Islamic caliphate and Obama sending more American troops
back into Iraq it is probably better than even money that it will be
cancelled altogether in the interests of national security.
