Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.
Glenn GreenwaldThey're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
Glenn GreenwaldNobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it canโt be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said โI disagreeโ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.โ
Glenn GreenwaldBut when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic โ and in some cases clearly false โ statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.
Glenn GreenwaldThe domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.
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