Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@briebriejoy @ninaturner Everyone says that. 🫣 It's a flaw of mine I'm working to reform! — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Otis_Miller @TuckerCarlson i explained on my own show -- on several episodes -- what is going on Brazil and made clear I reject several of the claims he made. I've also explained my views to him about why I believe parts of his report are wrong and, at his request, sent him materials proving that. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@detroit_rachel Because my husband and our children are Brazilian. When I met my husband, the law Bill Clinton signed - DOMA - barred immigration rights for same-sex couples. We built a life in Brazil. He's a member of Congress. Our children are Brazilian. I'm a US citizen. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In the US, the US Government operates behind a virtually impenetrable wall of secrecy, where everything they do is presumptively secret. Meanwhile, the USG surveils and monitors the citizenry, knowing everything private citizens are doing. This was supposed to be the opposite. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Put another way, in a healthy democracy: - The citizenry knows almost all of what their government is doing; secrecy is the exception. - The govt should know nothing about what private citizens are doing; warrants are the exception. Washington has *completely* reversed this. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I've seen NSA docs about lunch menus and CIA guides on requesting vacation dates marked CLASSIFIED and thus illegal to leak. In a healthy government, everything is *presumptively* transparent; secrecy is the exception. But in DC, everything is *presumptively* secret and hidden. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Luka70322870 2:30 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How many undercover agents had their cover blown and their lives jeopardized by Biden's serial recklessness with classified docs? How many secret USG docs did China, Russia and Iran get? Do they contain nuclear secrets? Did Hunter take some of these docs and sell them? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The question now is whether there are any places Biden *didn't* leave classified docs? As I said, I find these episodes trivial. I spent years reading through the USG's most sensitive archives and learned *everything* is marked classified. But Dems declared these grave crimes: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@_Aninha_Dias Ta melhorando. Ainda não saiu da zona dos perigos completamente -- ainda no UTI -- mas ele esta no melhor lugar, e esta mais forte, doque qualquer momento desde ele chegou no hospital 5 meses atrás. Tudo mundo está bem otimista sobre a recuperação dele. Vamos ver.🙏 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

♥️ https://t.co/jzUC3UU0yD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @thevivafrei: Live at 12:30 with @ggreenwald and it's going to be amazing. https://t.co/NmR8EC7gEZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Corporate media is dying, consolidating into a handful of Amazon-like giants with the rest rotting and fading away. They lost control. Independent journalism is thriving. There's nothing they can do except unite on Twitter in rage. This explains it all: https://t.co/IgnGFEqEcN — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

But at the end of the day, what's going on is simple. Being an employee of a media giant is miserable. The public hates and distrusts them. They do no fulfilling work and have nothing original to say (and aren't allowed to even if they had). They know their relevance is gone. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Employees of failing media corporations (or even the few thriving giants: NYT/WP) tell themselves the same tale: Independent journalists succeed only because they don't do "real journalism," even though these bitter employees break no stories while their targets break many. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Some of the top Substack writers passed through big media institutions. But almost all - including ones I can't stand on the substance - built their own organic audiences from scratch and maintained them over the years. Very few corporate employees can do this, hence the rage. https://t.co/YUSCy2FBwu — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The truth is almost every successful Substack writer has one thing in common: they spent years building their own loyal following, readers willing to pay to read their work because it offers something unique that can't be found elsewhere. Of course this enrages media employees. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'm the opposite of a Matt Yglesias fan and refuse to be dragged into The Discourse over That Profile, except to note everything in this thread is true.👇 Corporate media types hate independent journalists who built their own following because they can't https://t.co/zBXspUG5Jv — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There are a few good journalists at CNN and I don't take pleasure in anyone's personal torment, but the institution itself is a toxic plague on the world. The strongest proof of this is the utter lack of self-reflection: literally zero public analysis of what they did to fail. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The death of CNN+ was melodramatic and rapid - here one day, gone the next! But the death of CNN itself is a slow, excruciating, torturous collapse, like a leprosy that each day consumes just a bit more of each limb, prolonging the inevitable demise. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Listen to @briebriejoy -- the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign -- on why she admires the GOP holdouts not only for their willingness to defy party leadership, but for many of the key concessions they extracted: https://t.co/p3d8a6t2oz — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The Democrats are unanimous -- as always! has there been a more lockstep, group-think party in recent US political history? -- this time in attempting to shield the CIA, FBI, DHS and NSA from their first investigative scrutiny from Congress in decades. https://t.co/8YDjQaBdhH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ninaturner @briebriejoy As always! Brie is one of the best and smartest analysts in the country and one of my life goals is to lure her to Rumble to host her own nightly show there. A man can dream! My audience loves her. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On last night's @SystemUpdate_, we interviewed @DavidSirota, whose reporting has been great in demonstrating that Buttigieg - despite the smart schools he went to - is an incompetent manager with blame for the transportation failures (starts at 54:10): https://t.co/8YDjQaBdhH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That Pete Buttigieg is the Transportation Secretary - as if it's a prize given to party loyalists (just give him an Ambassadorship to some chic island-country) - is a joke. But look at how they defend him even as the transportation system collapses: https://t.co/EB3uX6oG6N — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Listen to how Buttigieg speaks here in his own defense. Neoliberal technocrats and their fans believe as a religious conviction that they're smarter and more competent because they toss around cliché-phrases like "data points" and "redundancies," which he learned at McKinsey. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That's why Dems now sound exactly like Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol: They're vehemently insisting there must be no scrutiny or transparency into the FBI, CIA or DHS because doing so is "attacking our government" and "harming national security." This is the DNC/neocon/CIA union: https://t.co/9hrbQzxVBV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One major reason Dems are united to shield CIA, FBI, DHS and NSA from investigative scrutiny is because the US Security State is wildly popular are among Dems, who recognize - accurately - that they're acting as their political allies, and thus fear transparency into them: https://t.co/LWxq3Cf26E — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Starting LIVE in 5 minutes... Why are DC Dems - unanimously - attempting so desperately to shield CIA, FBI and DHS from investigative scrutiny? The answers reveal much about our politics. Plus: @DavidSirota on Pete Buttigieg's role in the airline mess: https://t.co/8YDjQaBdhH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In less than 12 hours, Democrats unanimously tried to block an investigation into abuses of power by CIA, FBI and DHS -- their key institutional allies -- and, without a single hearing happening, have convinced millions of their sheep that this is about empowering insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org