CHARGE BOTH GREENWALD AND SNOWDEN WITH TREASON

Snowden is guilty but so is Glen Greenwald and by association but so is Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow among many, many other liberal media TV and radio hosts who jumped on the Greenwald band wagon with breaking news. There is breaking news and there is breaking news: a story that is wrongly reported is not breaking news.

By his own admission, Glen Greenwald “reported” that Snowden told him he had secret U.S. government information. He said that Snowden told him that he must buy an encryption device, for his computer before he would talk to him. Greenwald complied. Snowden gave him enticing details and told him that he had much more information. Snowden told him that all of the information was harvested from secret National Security Administration (NSA) computers because he, Snowden, decided that the “American people” deserved to know the truth. He was a systems analyst; a naive punk operating way out of pay grade

Greenwald is a reporter. Judging from past reporter and talking media attitudes, he should have access to all secret government information, and they will decide what should be secret and what the American people should know—Chris Hayes has repeated this refrain over-and-over. With that in mind after Greenwald accepted the call from Snowden, he did not call NSA, the FBI or the CIA and tell them that a clerk named

Snowden, who worked for a government contractor, was prepared to leak government secrets. Instead, he complied with the leakers request and bought the encryption device. Once he read the “downloads”—if he believed them— he should have realized that the NSA would listen-in on his communications, encrypted or not, which is precisely what the Snowden message said they would do. If he did not believe them meaning they were not true, as an ethical reporter, he should not have published them. Still he did not report Snowden to the authorities, but published the information for the entire world to read. Both he and Snowden were being coy. Snowden told Greenwald he had more information and Greenwald told his readers he had more to publish—carrots to entice more interest.

Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow among many other liberal media TV host gave the news wide publicity, I assume with the idea of enhancing their liberal credentials. Right wing TV and Radio Host joined in hoping to condemn the government, specifically Obama and Attorneys General Eric Holder and by extension, Keith Alexander, the four star general who heads NSA, which they want to destroy, the Obama administration.  Both liberals and conservatives tended to turn the traitor into a hero. Now some of them are realizing the damage that Snowden and Greenwald have done. Greenwald should be charged and not just Snowden. Why charge the reporter? He did not report the treason therefore was complicit in the criminal act. He bought the encryption device thus complied with Snowden, which is proof that Greenwald willfully aided him in revealing U.S, Government secrets. The fact that Snowden lied is irrelevant because no one knows what information he actually has but we know his intent. We also have to assume he handed the information, what ever it is, to the Chinese and the Russians. It would be totally foolish and irresponsible to believe otherwise. 

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