Glenn Greenwald’s Guardian piece on how the National Security Agency is data mining American telephone calls (just the call numbers, folks, not grandma’s conversations, at least not so far) has the ring of a planned distraction from the real scandals engulfing President Wormtongue and his leftist minions.
After all, Greenwald is a noted Leftist and the Guardian a Leftist rag of the first water and who would they likely try to protect but another Leftist? Certainly they wouldn’t seek to expose him. Plus their “big story” is about six years old. It was detailed exhaustively by USToday back in 2007, as the WSJ noted yesterday in an editorial supporting the call collections for traffic analysis.
Not everyone agrees, of course, such as Mead and Steyn. But they have always enjoyed piling on. And there’s the apparently independent PRISM revelation which has all sorts of economic implications. I doubt the IRS furor will get lost in the shuffle, but Benghazi might and it’s the one scandal capable of getting Barry impeached and Lady Macbeth politically neutered.
Meanwhile, get this, after a long silence, ol’ Worm has deigned to appear in public to “answer” a “furor” over a “scandal.” I smell a rat and his name is Glenn Greenwald.
UPDATE: The PRISM revelation was not independent but came from the WaPo, another sterling backer of the administration, and the Guardian (perhaps working together) so the rats are multiplying.
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I agree with you smelling a rat. However, I suspect that Greenwald felt that to keep quiet after the noise he made back in 2006 during Bush’s rule kind of forced his hand.
After all, what would be said about him personally if he didn’t publish this time like he did previously?
But who knows, maybe you are right too.
Trifle hard to believe Greenwald would attack a fellow Lefty to balance out his attack on a Right Winger. Balance? Does Greenwald have any balance? The WaPo charging in to deposit the PRISM turd just makes the change-the-subject even more obvious.
I agree that Greenwald’s balance is not a factor. Self-interest could be another guess, he is so full of it.
The conservative PowerLine blog today calls him a “lunatic Leftist.” Appropriately..