Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept (substack.com) 374
Long-time Slashdot reader imAck writes: Glenn Greenwald announced via Twitter recently that he has resigned from The Intercept (and First Look Media), the former being a media outlet that he co-founded [in February 2014]. Purportedly, a recent attempt to constrain his editorial freedom was the incident that pushed him to make the decision. "Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication," an anonymous Slashdot reader quotes him as saying.
As The New York Times notes, Mr. Greenwald is "best known for his role in making public the National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013," which Slashdot covered extensively. "For now, Mr. Greenwald will be part of a growing number of journalists who have left major media outlets to try their luck at Substack, a group that includes Andrew Sullivan, formerly of New York Magazine, and Matt Taibbi, formerly of Rolling Stone."
Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept, responded to Greenwald's departure, saying there's a "fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship."
As The New York Times notes, Mr. Greenwald is "best known for his role in making public the National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013," which Slashdot covered extensively. "For now, Mr. Greenwald will be part of a growing number of journalists who have left major media outlets to try their luck at Substack, a group that includes Andrew Sullivan, formerly of New York Magazine, and Matt Taibbi, formerly of Rolling Stone."
Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept, responded to Greenwald's departure, saying there's a "fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship."
Wow super interesting (Score:5, Informative)
Not a single mention in the summary about what's actually happening. Hint: it's about Biden.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/glenn-greenwald-resigns-intercept-after-editors-refused-publish-biden-criticism
Re: Wow super interesting (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Wow super interesting (Score:5, Informative)
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The whole point of "black lives matter" is that the people claiming that life is sacred haven't been acting that way when it comes to black lives. Thus saying "all lives matter" is at best spectacularly ignorant of what black people go through on a regular basis, AND only underscores the actual message of black lives matter — that "all lives matter" is a foul, abusive, and manipulative lie until black lives matter.
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What you said only makes sense if the majority of people killed are black;
No, that's stupid and wrong. It makes sense if more black people are killed per capita. There's a lot less of them than there are white people in this country, and you have to account for that. It's also not only about actual deaths; harassment and abuse are also relevant. Freedom from those things should be part of life.
Please tell me what "facts" I'm saying that are divisive.
None, that's my point. You're not working with facts.
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What's reliable about Greenwald is that he will always deny Russian meddling in US elections.
That's problematic, given the investigations that have concluded otherwise.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:4, Informative)
Like Beau would mention Hunter's laptop.
Hush, hush, you should not mention it too. Or at least mark your message as "adult only", given the shit they found in it.
However he resigned after they refused to publish this article about Biden's businesses in China and Ukraine [substack.com].
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FYI, laptop's existence and validity of its materials has now been confirmed by multiple involved parties. We even have one of the parties receiving the emails confirm their authenticity.
Like Goebbels said, "repeat the lie enough times and people start to believe it". It's interesting to watch US mainstream media test this hypothesis so thoroughly.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
FYI, laptop's existence and validity of its materials has now been confirmed by multiple involved parties.
No, some of the emails were confirmed. That's not all.
When you want to inject bullshit into the media, you don't inject 100% bullshit. You include real information along with the fake, so that people stop asking uncomfortable questions like, "Why'd he fly 3000 miles to get his laptops repaired by a guy he doesn't know?"
See, Hunter Biden lives in Los Angeles, not Delaware. Really strange that he traveled so far with 3 broken laptops to get them fixed. Might be excusable if he knew the repair guy, but he didn't. In fact, we're being told that the repair guy is hostile to the Bidens.
Well, maybe he was visiting Dad and just needed the laptops fixed RIGHT NOW. Except the Delaware Apple store is closer to Dad's house, and Hunter Biden has plenty of money to pay for a first-party repair. But even if we ignore that problem, he didn't pick up the laptops. They're supposed to be so important that they had to be fixed right now, but then he forgot about them because they were unimportant?
Then there's the hard drive problem. If the shop is going to resale the laptop because it's abandoned, why dig through it? Format the drive, install the OS and be done. Digging through the emails looking for something interesting doesn't make sense. Especially when you didn't know who dropped it off until you started digging through the email database on the hard disk.
Then there's the multiple stories about the hard disks themselves. The claims have been that he gave it to the FBI, he gave a copy to the FBI (destroying it's value as evidence), he never gave it to anyone, and now Guliani's friends made copies. You don't need 4 different stories when you're telling the truth.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. Republicans used to be so much better at ratfucking than this. This is just amateur hour.
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The reason I'm asking for quotes is because the Greenwald doesn't actually refute any of those problems with the story.
So, feel free to quote where you think he did.
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You got your mod points, and almost nobody else is reading this thread. You can ease off on the Godwin-esque insults.
Greenwald throws a lot of words into his 'long article', but he omits so many things the he completely fails to make his case. For instance, his entire description of Rudy Giuliani is "Trump adviser". He just omits any mention of Giuliani's long history of blatantly lying for Trump, over and over again:
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Everyone who owns a mac knows that Apple stores don't repair macs, even for simple stuff.
Except they, ya know, do actually repair Macs. They charge more than some shops, but they will send it out for repair.
After all, this is Slashdot, where articles were regularly posted about how Apple wasn't giving third-party repair shops access to parts, so that Apple could monopolize repairs via their stores. And just how terrible that was for Apple to do. 'Course that's inconvenient now, so they must have never done repairs and all those other stories were false.
Crack addicts don't always make good decisions or have good memories
1) For that to work, you'd have to be c
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FYI, laptop's existence and validity of its materials has now been confirmed by multiple involved parties. We even have one of the parties receiving the emails confirm their authenticity.
Like Goebbels said, "repeat the lie enough times and people start to believe it". It's interesting to watch US mainstream media test this hypothesis so thoroughly.
Really?
A laptop exists, but I've not seen any real evidence that it's Hunter Biden's.
And some emails have been confirmed, but mixing a real material in with manufactured material to lend the manufactured material credence is a pretty basic deception technique.
And the story was so sketchy that not only did Fox News decline to run it but the NY Post couldn't even find reporters willing to attach their names to it [vanityfair.com]. One of the "authors" didn't even find out their name was on it until it was published!!
And you w
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FBI has no credibility. Shop owner has no credibility. Multiple lawyers have no credibility. Person who literally went to testify under oath and risks going to jail if this information is actually not credible has no credibility. Evidence on the laptop, including of very private nature has no credibility.
By this standard, every single story on Trump in last five years has no credibility, as most of them have less than this, as Greenwald notes in his story.
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This is also an interesting study in botting. My post above was downvoted to -1 troll within a couple of minutes of posting it. I finished another post, went back and it was at -1 along several others in the same subthread. Almost like someone just hired a botfarm to hit every message in the thread to -1.
And within about an hour, it was back at +1. Which would be in line with actually organic modding on slashdot, where people trickle in, read the comments and moderate. At the same time as this crying about
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Re:Wow super interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
You didn't actually defend the providence of the laptop, and responded with a deliberately dumb take on what the OP said. So you were just adding noise and the mods reacted accordingly.
I suppose a Biden botnet is possible, but it is more likely that China or some other country hostile to Trump (every Western democracy + Iran) is doing it. Or, again, people are tired of Trump, and tired of people deflecting for him and spreading his bullshit. and you were modded because of that. You're at +4 now, so maybe the Russians got a call to arms (keyboards).
Time will tell just how credulous people had to be to believe the Hunter Biden emails, but worst case scenario, Biden can be held accountable in ways Trump cannot.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:4)
It's funny how folks representing your views keep talking about affecting ongoing US elections in relation to this story.
I guess when that is a motive burning on your mind, you can't but help to out yourself. Question is, how will you feel knowing that you engaged in all this corruption after you win?
But then, you're also a guy who argues that "being married to a far left MP, and actively campaigning for far left causes since even before that" is not a sign of far left views because "he went after Clinton in 2016 after she deposed of Bernie". I.e. I don't think you have enough coherent thoughts left to actually recognise how awful of a human being you have made yourself into in this.
Re: Wow super interesting (Score:3)
"How credulous". Well, considering the dkim verification came back as authentic according to Robert Graham of Errata Security(are you going to accuse him of being willing to dump his business and reputation in the toilet for Trump?) The credulous appear to have been correct on this one.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:4, Insightful)
The only ones denying it are the so-called news outlets who refuse to discuss it because they are actively working to get Biden elected. That is why Greenwald resigned.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:4, Insightful)
Having actually read the material of the case, I'm not convinced there's even enough to make a criminal case. The entire thing as we know it so far seems to be "Biden Sr. should have clearly known what his idiot son is doing is straight up stupid level of corrupt and exposes both him and his son politically". But I don't think there'll be enough to actually pin this on Biden Sr. in terms of criminality.
Claim made by the Biden Jr. associate seems pretty much on point in that "there's just enough plausible deniability according to their own words".
So I would agree with Greenwald that the real story here isn't even the whole Biden brouhaha. Yeah, he's more corrupt than most would think, and it looks really bad, but it's probably not bad enough to be provable in a court of law beyond reasonable doubt as long as there are good lawyers on Biden's side. The real story is the incredible amount of effort across mainstream media, and as everyone can see even on slashdot to cover the story up. There appears to be genuine effort on all levels of mainstream journalism, from top level editors to bottom of the rug junior journalists to "do whatever it takes" to ensure that Trump isn't re-elected. It doesn't matter how much they have to lie, it will be done.
This is starting to look a lot of like journalism from Soviet Union. You're not allowed to dissent even internally, and if you do everyone piles on. Something Greenwald provided an example of.
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just an attempt to foist Giuliani's dreck onto a "naive" American press and public
Yeah, "The Yankee Ghoul Haunts a Laptop" is pretty weak sauce, I mean, seriously.
Did they ever find the peepee tape? Or the UK's Russia Report?
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:5, Informative)
The funny part is, in the linked story Greenwald goes through this exact BS narrative you're trying to spin and utterly demolishes it.
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Where?
Greenwald's complaint in that article is that stories with similar levels of verification have gotten more coverage. And while he might have a point about the press reporting on other cases, that is NOT proof that this case is valid.
The fact that Greenwald never mentions the nut-case interview with the repair shop owner is telling. The guy really appears to think Hilary Clinton was out to kill him - he has no credibility at all.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
Ah, the propaganda account counting on people not reading the source material and just telling straight up brazen lies will convince at least some of the audience as long as it's brazen enough.
Sad thing is, you're probably right. Some people probably won't read the source material, as the story is indeed a long one, as Greenwald goes through a lot of material and claims.
Re:Wow super interesting (Score:4, Insightful)
>Literally laughing at the propaganda account bit ... hint: not everyone who disagrees with you is from Russia.
That's some interesting projection on your part. At no point in this discussion did I reference Russia.
>And not every downmod of your (contentless) posts is from a bot farm.
And I never claimed that downvote on every post was. I made a claim about a very specific post. You just keep making these Freudian slips.
And like I said, everything is in the story by Greenwald that was censored off The Intercept and now posted on his substack account.
Email contents have been verified (Score:4, Informative)
From Greenwald's article:
"There are sources in the email chains who have verified that the published emails are accurate. The archive contains private photos and videos of Hunter whose authenticity is not in doubt. A former business partner of Hunter has stated, unequivocally and on the record, that not only are the emails authentic but they describe events accurately, including proposed participation by the former Vice President in at least one deal Hunter and Jim Biden were pursuing in China. And, most importantly of all, neither Hunter Biden nor the Biden campaign has even suggested, let alone claimed, that a single email or text is fake."
Whatever else can be said about any party in this story, the contents of the emails themselves have been verified to a fairly high standard as can be seen above.
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a) Greenwald is really over-stating the case here. Bobulinsky, the former business partner, has spent the past couple of months trying to get somebody to bite on his October surprise, and has failed. Even the ultra-lefty</s> Wall Street Journal wouldn't publish his claims:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/1... [nytimes.com]
b) None of the emails are actually from Hunter Biden; they were all purportedly sent to him. That's very weird for what's supposed to be his laptop.
c) Even if some of the emails are valid, that doe
Censorship is bad (Score:4, Insightful)
Those who censor journalists because they won't adhere to a political narrative are un-American. We need to hear from all sides in order to make informed choices, particularly with an important election happening soon.
Unfortunately the people who control our newsrooms and broadcast networks don't agree. They are all partisan political operatives now and their objective is to control the narrative.
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Re:Censorship is bad (Score:4, Insightful)
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Yes, I would. [arxiv.org]
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arXiv doesn't publish everything it receives, it has a moderation policy:
https://arxiv.org/help/moderat... [arxiv.org]
If you want to publish any old crap, you have to use viXra
https://vixra.org/ [vixra.org]
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Re:Censorship is bad (Score:5, Informative)
The Intercept has a right to refuse to publish (or demand edits to, before publishing) Greenwald's articles. However, Greenwald had an agreement that if they did so, he could publish elsewhere - that's one of the safeguards it was set up with, to be outside of corporate news organizations (or any other individual such as Betsy Reed or Pierre Omidyar).
They reneged on this agreement and tried to stop him from publishing it elsewhere with legal threats, arguing that it could "hurt the Intercept's reputation".
They're trying to suppress in a way they explicitly promised they would not. I think that makes Greenwald's accusation of censorship justified.
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Re: Greenwald is not leftist (Score:3)
Re: Greenwald is not leftist (Score:4, Informative)
The man is literally married to a far left Brazilian MP for whom he often campaigns. Stop lying in such a brazenly stupid fashion.
I've been seeing this with Kyle Kulinsky (Score:3, Interesting)
Not sure about Greenwald, but given that he's piling onto the Hunter Biden "Scandal" (look up Beau Of The Fifth Column's YouTube videos on it, while it's likely Hunter got the job because of who his dad is it's plain that his dad didn't lift a finger to help him) I don't trust Greenwald. Fox bloody News was offered the Hunter Biden Oct Surprise and turned it down, leaving it to the tabloid rag NY Post (mind you Fox
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It's nice you support him, but yes, Greenwald is a real leftist, as opposed to a centrist "liberal". Both conservatives and centrist "liberals" in the US have a shared interest in muddling the difference between liberals and leftists.
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I see Biden's campaign funds are hard at work spewing disinfo. The man is a well known progressive left campagner and even married to a PSOL Brazilian MP. PSOL is a political party that is somewhere between left and far-left in its platform.
Whole lot of something in that nothing (Score:2, Insightful)
He went after Hilary's emails in 2016 (which turned out to be nothing)
Sending classified content in emails would have anyone else in jail, for a long Tim. Not nothing, and it's why Hillary lost.
He spent the last 4 years writing articles defending Trump (i.e. "at least he's not a war monger like G W Bush & Obama")
So you prefer warmongers, got it. Some of us actual centrists prefer not getting into wars and so far Trump is the on ly modern president who has managed to avoid it.
Now he's whining about Hu
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Sending classified content in emails would have anyone else in jail, for a long Tim
Based on what information has been released, it would have resulted in some punishment, but jail time is not likely for spillage like that. If she was still employed by the government, and in a position where a security clearance could be revoked, she'd have lost her clearance for some period of time.
There's steps between "nothing" and "jail time", and they're very commonly used.
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Oh, I know, the Clinton family is more powerful than the Bilderbergs/Illuminati/Tri-Lateral Commission, have personally committed (or ordered) more murders than La Cosa Nostra / MS13 / Triads / Colombian
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As far as Glenn, I have a feeling that if he had a case the story would be printed already. Why? He'd basically print it and be right there, daring them to sue him. The fact he hasn't printed it says far more than his fluffy words of poutrage.
https://greenwald.substack.com... [substack.com]
Look at the timestamp of when he published it
Spoiler: It was before your condemnation
So this is what so called Journalist (Score:2)
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editor produced journalism = propaganda
Not many in the media today are bothering to do much journalism.
Come on and say it. (Score:5, Insightful)
Glenn Greenwald's sin was that tried to write about Hunter's laptop. Greenwald might one of the few real reporters left. He doesn't care if you are on the left or right. Screw-up, steal, lie, do bad stuff, etc. he wants to investigate.
As of today: To ignore Hunter's laptop is wrong. To accept what has been found on Hunter's laptop as absolute truth is wrong. It will take months to check ip headers on emails, other servers, bank accounts, travel records, etc. to sift fact from fiction. If we refuse to investigate someone because daddy is powerful, we are done. We need to be careful not to accuse until the investigation shows wrongdoing.
Re:Come on and say it. (Score:5, Informative)
It might take months to verify some aspects of the story, but the emails themselves can be verified in a few seconds using the DKIM headers. https://blog.erratasec.com/202... [erratasec.com]
Re:Come on and say it. (Score:5, Informative)
The emails have also been confirmed legit by Hunter's actual business associates.
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Some emails have also been confirmed legit by Hunter's actual business associates.
FTFY.
When you're injecting bullshit into the media, you don't send 100% bullshit. You put some real things in there in an attempt to make the bullshit believable.
For example, putting in some real emails has you not asking questions like, "The guy lives in LA....why'd he fly across the country with three broken laptops to have them fixed at a random shop in Delaware?"
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Google uses DKIM signatures, but do we know that Rosemont Seneca does? It may not be as easy this time around.
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As your link notes, they have NOT released the metadata for the emails.
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The whole story is so sketchy. The blind store owner calls up Rudy Giuliani rather than the FBI or anyone else. The laptop is rumored to have child porn along with all these "smoking gun" emails. Giuliani hangs onto the hard drive (full of kiddie porn) and claims he even sleeps with it. Just out of sheer coincidence the New York Post also endorses Trump.
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The store owner gave the laptop to the FBI a full year ago.
He called Guiliani with a copy of the drive after the FBI sat on it for a year.
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I’m sure the Mole Men were given a copy as well.
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Do their job and report yes. That is also the angle Greenwald and Taibbi take: not that the laptop has earthshattering revelations on it but that journalists should do their job.
In the meantime though journalists have adapted so thoroughly to a narrow corporate culture that what they consider their job is entirely different from what Greenwald thinks it should be.
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You "heard"?
How about you rely on the little information we have. The NYPost screenshot PDF was made in 2019 according to the metadata. How does that square with the "FBI leak" theory?
Never mind that the FBI leak theory contradicts what both the laptop repair guy and Giuliani himself says.
The noise you have to cut through while trying to discuss the authenticity of politically relevant documents...
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So the FBI had a full year to investigate and never said a thing?
yup, and THAT is why... (Score:2)
so many of Trump's supporters are so angry - the very same FBI claimed it cleared Anthony Weiner's laptop with its cache of tens of thousands of Hillary's emails in the space of a single weekend before the 2016 election.
Furthermore, by dragging its feet on the Hunter laptop for over a YEAR, the FBI did the following:
1. It kept the Biden family safe through the entire Democrat primary season, making Biden the "safe" choice for Democrats, whereas the disclosure might have blown-open a path for Warren or Biden
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2. It stripped the President of a ton of defensive material last December/January while the Democrats were impeaching him for asking what Hunter was up to in the Ukraine. That's called "exculpatory evidence" and it's a crime for the government to withhold such materials from a defendant in a trial.
A) What does any of this have to do with the corruption of the con artist? Whatever happened occurred long before the 2016 election and has no relevance to the crimes of the con artist.
B) So what if Hunter got a
Re:Come on and say it. (Score:4, Informative)
That's the story, but the little they've released of metadata contradicts it. The screenshot-PDF thing NYPost published seems to have been made in 2019.
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The store owner gave the laptop to the FBI a full year ago.
He called Guiliani with a copy of the drive after the FBI sat on it for a year.
So you're saying the guy illegally made a copy of someone else's personal information and divulged it to someone? Cool. Left the lawsuits rain down.
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The original NY Post story (which the media seems to find completely disinteresting) contains a copy of the FBI subpoena for the laptop and an external hard drive. So apparently, it's evidence of something, though what that something is remains to be seen.
The biggest problem I have with this whole issue is the timing. The date on the subpoena is 12/17/2019. Trump was impeached by the house on 12/18/2019.
My mind absolutely boggles that a president was impeached while the FBI possessed evidence that was ma
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My mind absolutely boggles that a president was impeached while the FBI possessed evidence that was material to the impeachment and said absolutely nothing. If the laptop is real, the impeachment for asking Ukraine to investigate is entirely unwarranted, and makes the Democrats look really, really fucking bad.
Not really. Even if Joe Biden were trying to stop an investigation into Burisma - an idea that still seems completely illogical based on the facts - Trump still would've been overstepping his authority to request an investigation into a political rival, using defense aid as a bargaining chip in what could still be considered bribery. It would still have been a terrible abuse of power at minimum. The Ukraine aid scandal has many layers of wrongness to it, and the apparent bullshittiness of the reason for the
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One fact that's often omitted is that the new prosecutor DID in fact close down the investigation, with no charges filed, within a year.
It seems clear to me that both the new and old prosecutor were not exactly great, at either competence or integrity.
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Trump still would've been overstepping his authority to request an investigation into a political rival, using defense aid as a bargaining chip in what could still be considered bribery. It would still have been a terrible abuse of power at minimum
If I recall the Ukraine call correctly, the comment from Trump was something along the lines of Hunter Biden, Burisma, corruption, etc, that related to his father. If this laptop is real, and contains proof to that effect, it suggests that was acceptable for Trump to ask this--that there was real fire to the smoke. It's not investigating a political rival, it's investigating corruption in the executive branch of the US government. You can argue that it's the role of lesser functionaries in government to
Um, you've not been following it closely enough (Score:3, Informative)
1. The repair shop owner is not totally blind - he can see very close-up and with magnification, which is why he works up-close on fixing hardware but is unable to swear to being able to recognize the face of the person who was across the counter from him when he turned it in for repair in 2019. The person who turned it in for repair did, however, sign the paperwork authorizing the repair (including the standard clause about surrendering abandoned stuff after a period of time) and the signature of the perso
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1. The repair shop owner is not totally blind - he can see very close-up and with magnification, which is why he works up-close on fixing hardware but is unable to swear to being able to recognize the face of the person who was across the counter from him when he turned it in for repair in 2019. The person who turned it in for repair did, however, sign the paperwork authorizing the repair (including the standard clause about surrendering abandoned stuff after a period of time) and the signature of the perso
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If not picked up, it shops becomes the owner of the equipment left for repair after a certain time.
This is standard, else shops would have to retain all equipment left there for ever.
Once the shop became the owner, they could do what they want with it.
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The guy in the shop looked at the contents of the laptop prior to his planned wiping and resetting which would precede his selling it as used/reconditioned equipment
False. Reformat HDD and you're done. You don't need to poke around in the data, searching through emails until you find something interesting.
Giuliani, being a VERY smart lawyer
You should probably catch up on what he's been doing the last 30 years. Hint: He doesn't look all that bright anymore.
had some experts he uses make multiple clones of the drive
That the shop owner claimed he gave to the FBI. Then didn't give to the FBI. Then gave copies to the FBI, thus destroying the chain of custody so that they were no use to the FBI. No, Guliani's friends copied it. I'm sure the real ones will be f
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Because no other newspaper could verify the story?
Re:Come on and say it. (Score:5, Insightful)
It is not a matter of suppressing facts. The facts have been covered in mainstream outlets. But as we have seen, facts have little or nothing to do with swaying public opinion. It is about volume. Repetition. Staying on-message. 4 deaths in Benghazi can be more persuasive than 234,000 deaths in the United States because facts and numbers mean nothing directly, unless they are covered proportionally.
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That is an issue. But we can't become complicit in a coverup, and what happened still matters - even if it doesn't matter as much as Trump's brazen and public corruption, or his downright responsibility for the Covid pandemic - he disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefense unit!
The appearance of suppression only fuels the fire. Sure, be proportionate, but be honest.
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But we can't become complicit in a coverup, and what happened still matters
What happened? Was some crime committed? Did someone die? What coverup is going on?
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Is that a real question? The nation's 4th largest paper, and one of its oldest, has been locked out of its Twitter account until after the election. For reporting on a story more credible than any of the the Russiagate bullshit that's been dumped on the public for the last four years.
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It was almost certainly not illegal. The US government and supreme court have pretty much legalized corruption on this level - specifically, giving "access" for favors isn't even the appearance of corruption according to the court. Unless you're so stupid as to explicitly promise something and set a price tag on it (Rod Blagojevich!) you should be in the clear.
No one benefits more from that legalization than Donald Trump himself, of course.
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And since Joe's been around in politics for almost 5 decades and all of his family members seemed to enrich themselves off of him.
Please tell us how Biden's family has enriched themselves off him. Did he make the U.S. taxpayer pay for his golf outings at his own properties? Did he make the U.S. taxpayer [foxnews.com] pay for water [vanityfair.com] when hosting foreign dignitaries at his own properties? Did he plan to host a major international meeting at one of his own properties [pbs.org] rather than a secure government location? Did his fami
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Here's a decent writeup of the swampiness of Biden's family, back from January: https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/... [nypost.com]
Re:Come on and say it. (Score:5, Interesting)
Greenwald founded the Intercept with the explicit desire that mainstream and dissident journalism should coexist.
Over the years though he found that mainstream journalism does not tolerate dissident ideas. With the whole Russiagate saga he found himself in a very difficult position already.(I would say he was the only one who was still able to look at it sensibly) but he could still hang on because he was in a way the face of the Intercept. This incident was only the last straw and it was going to happen sooner or later. The Intercept is not yet quite mainstream but getting there. It is no coincidence that Mehdi Hassan could move seamlessly from the Intercept to NBC.
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The "dissident" shtick worked for him when he was on the right side of the NSA stuff...which nobody seems to care about anymore, now that it's evident that GoogleFaceAzon know at least as much about us if not far more.
Look at these articles and show me where Glenn did actual original reporting - i.e., talked to someone, then talked to someone else and cross-checked details that didn't match between the two sources. S
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Greenwald tries to apply integrity and principles. The cynical mind is not able to see that and cannot distinguish between people with high integrity and others. Criticizing Greenwald is like an art critic criticizing a chair. if the design is sober you take the angle that it is stark, boring and cold. If the design is rich you take the angle that it is overloaded, pompous and confusing.
Sometimes journalism is opiniated blogging. In this case the central theme of Greenwald's piece was that journalists colle
I am looking forward to reading his article. (Score:2)
WTF? Why is there a "Comment Subject"? This isn't email!
Maybe I've spent too much time on Reddit.
Wow, yeah. What a time warp.
What is this about? (Score:5, Informative)
The editors are trying to bury the story about the documents from the Hunter Biden laptop and the Bobulinski interview/emails.
Here is a direct link to the emails exchanged between Greenwald and his editors: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing [substack.com]
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Drop the standard DNC talking point. (Score:2)
The Clintons introduced that line in the 1990s while establishing their "bimbo eruption squad" and using the entire presidential cabinet to deny Bill's activities. Just announcing "that's been debunked" with no evidence that it HAS been debunked (no citation of when, by whom, and with what evidence) is pure political garbage. It's as grungy a tactic as another one they introduced back the: "that's all in the past - it's been litigated" (when there's no evidence it ever saw a courtroom, and the effects of th
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Let me make sure I've got this right. Your argument is that the timeline doesn't work because Donald Trump personally has been running around the country killing people, using the global pandemic for cover?
Seriously now. Here is the timeline. What, in your own words, is wrong with it?
2012 - Investigation into Burisma starts
2014 - Burisma hires Biden for a no-show job, pays him ~1,000,000 $ per year
Date unknown - Hunter complains that he has to pay half of his income to his dad
2015 - the big guy uses taxp
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Blowback from Joe Rogan Experience #1556 (Score:2)
Article goes out of the way to avoid saying why (Score:3, Insightful)
It's amazing how much the article tap dances around why he resigned. Greenwald was disgusted with the censorship of the Biden laptop story. The story has been verified in a range of ways from the lawyer asking for it back to the FBI confirming that they have possession of it. The DNI has point blank confirmed that the laptop isn't Russian disinformation and that there is no basis to think that there is any Russian disinformation around the story.
People who got and sent emails on the laptop have verified them as accurate. Another person involved has testified to the Senate and provided additional corroborating evidence. Another source of evidence also corroborates the evidence from a third person. The Ukrainians also seized laptops from someone involved. The Bidens haven't denied any part of the laptop story as inaccurate. At this point in time nobody has refuted a single piece of evidence from the story. Pictures have been found, including some on Burisma's website that were still posted that show Joe Biden meeting people that he said he never met.
The story doesn't just hit Hunter Biden as the bag man for Joe Biden, the story includes testimony that Joe Biden himself was directly on the take. The biggest story of all isn't the rampant corruption of Joe Biden and his family. The biggest story isn't the fact that we arguably have a real life Manchurian candidate.
The biggest story is the media coverup of a massive story right before the election. People want to know, Tucker Carlson's interview of one of the business associates got 7.6 million viewers for an hour long interview. That's more people than who watched the NBA finals or an NFL football game and 4/5th's as many as watched the world series.
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You should talk to your doctor about increasing your Ritalin.
Team Biden has not, because they cannot (Score:2)
That laptop is full of pictures, videos, emails, documents - far too much material to be faked and so much that they do not know what they can deny without being put into a deeper hole by a subsequent reveal of more info from that laptop that they did not anticipate. They also are now aware that TWO of Hunter's business partners are now cooperating with the investigation (and they do not know what THEY have said or what documents are available from those sources) and they also are aware that at least some o
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Yeah, #### that guy for wanting to report facts and wanting the US media at large to go back to doing honest reporting again.