Greenwald’s Boss Omidyar provided 36% of “Center UA”’s $500,000 budget in 2012— nearly $200,000. USAID provided 54% of “Center UA”’s budget for 2012. Other funders included the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy...
... According to financial disclosures and reports published by Pando, the founder and publisher of Glenn Greenwald’s new venture co-invested with the US government to help fund regime change in Ukraine.
The incredible Gordian Knot of conflicts of interest surrounding the Snowden-Greenwald Cult needs to be chopped open and looked at.
Snowden, working for Booz Allen Hamilton, of which the Bush crime family connected Carlyle Group is the majority owner, stole more than a million documents from the NSA. Which, according to Glenn Greenwald, he handed to him and his partner, Laura Poitras, so they could start attacking the NSA and its violations of privacy. I will quickly pass over the near certainty that, in his flight to, first China and then Russia, Snowden gave those governments and their intelligence services, among the most privacy un-friendly governments in the world, everything he was carrying with him. Probably the entire cache of stolen intelligence and any encryption keys he had placed on it. They'd have traded him to the U.S. government if he hadn't bought his way out of extradition with the only thing he had that they really, really would want.
Greenwald and Poitras, since then, have teamed up with Pierre Omidyar to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars to form a new media venture. As the few people who have paid attention to that have asked, does anyone believe that part of Omidyar's agreement was that HE wouldn't have access to the more than a million documents they had, which would be extremely valuable to any large corporate interest. Among other things, it is a virtual certainty that there would be information about competing business entities that could be of enormous value to someone like Omidyar.
And, to continue with the knotting, it then turns out that Omidyar, in his role as co-founder of Pay Pal, himself has cooperated with the NSA in data collection of exactly the kind Greenwald et al pretend was such a terrible violation of privacy rights. Not only that but his co-founder is a big fan of the NSA. And now, as it turns out, Omidyar is involved in many other government and quasi-governmental programs, including encouraging the overturning of an elected government in Ukraine.
And this is supposed to be how an alternative media is founded and behaves. Not only an "alternative media" but a media which we are supposed to accept as some kind of heroic manifestation of leftist anti-establishment effort.
If you are finding it hard to take the sales job seriously that would be because it is so obviously corrupt. Glenn Greenwald is a center-right libertarian fraud whose only target is the Obama administration. I don't know enough about Poitras to be able to come up with an explanation of her hypocrisy but Greenwald has a long archive of material to show where he's coming from. The Greenwald groupies on the pseudo-lefty blogs are too lazy and stupid to look at it and ask questions. They are contented to just go with the flow, not caring that the flow is coming from the direction that the stink they're whining about comes from, as well.
I think Greenwald's only target is whatever administration is in power. He's an equal opportunity crank.
ReplyDeleteAnd his only goal is the promotion of Glenn Greenwald. Barton Gellman has published as much about Snowden, and Der Spiegal and the NYT have published many stories as well (so have other media outlets). But Greenwald continues to claim he is the only person, besides Greenwald, who risks imprisonment or martyrdom for his devotion to the cause of: promoting Glenn Greenwald.
Not even the British government has tried to storm the offices of the Guardian, but Greenwald alone is so important two world powers want him in their clutches. Or some such nonsense.
Let him go to his new money source. Much good may it do him. You've convinced me it's just another would-be power center, interested only in what benefits the people with the money.
One of the people I read, I think it was Sibel Edmonds, pointed out that since Gellman works for the WaPo that, in buying it, Jeff Bezos can be presumed to have access to whatever stolen intelligence Gellman had and that it would be extremely valuable to him as well.
DeleteThis is such an obvious case of the hypocrisy of the pseudo-left that it's tempting for me to concentrate on just that aspect of it. It certainly shows up how entirely unserious they are about things.
Apropos of my bringing up Miranda (I think I did, anyway), following the link you gave to another post, the perfectly reasonable question is raised: Why did Miranda fly back from
ReplyDeleteGermany through Heathrow, instead of through Spain or Portugal or France? Apparently he could have easily done so, and likely provoked no detention.
Could it be Greenwald wanted the detention? And, of course (I love this part) Greenwald bragged about his encryption of data being unbreakable. Except Miranda was carrying all the passwords with him, written on a piece of paper. Almost as if they wanted it to be accessible....
That could be, I hadn't thought of that. I think that it could have also been sheer arrogance, believing that the British government wouldn't dare to mess with Greenwald The Great. He threatened them with exposure of NSA secrets as soon as his boyfriend was detained. When I read that Poitras had told the NYT in an article they published the day before Miranda was detained that she used friends to donkey stuff through customs it didn't seem that they were exactly trying hard to protect people like Miranda from detention.
DeleteThis thing stinks more every time I look at it and nothing in it stinks more than the behavior of Snowden, Greenwald and the others held up as shining heroes for the left. The left are a bunch of the biggest chumps since Bullwinkle J. Moose and his Squirrel pal.