Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@deaner__ Claiming that I never realized until today that the FBI abuses its power by going beyond crime-fighting -- when I've written books devoted to this topic and it's been a major theme of mine for 17 years -- is what's idiotic. This is *new evidence* of them doing it is new ways. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@deaner__ The fact that the FBI has long abused its power doesn't mean you should stop reporting on the FBI and hide every new abuse of power. It's as stupid as saying: everyone knows the police lie and engage in brutality so stop reporting new incidents when they do. It's moronic. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AnarchistClass They began changing their policies in 2017, and others followed suit, in anticipation of the 2020 election, to avoid a repeat of WikiLeaks: ie where they reported on *accurate and newsworthy* information but which reflected poorly on Hillary. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@PauI_Heckman As I just got done explaining, the key question isn't only whether the information is accurate, but whether it's in the public interest. There's all sorts of accurate information a journalist gets that they shouldn't report: just as private information about a non-public figure. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'll leave it to you to ponder: if some foreign country hostile to Trump - say, Iran or Venezuela or Cuba or Ukraine - had hacked or otherwise obtained incriminating docs about Trump and sent them to NBC, do you think NBC would have reported them or hidden them? Exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Corporate media, fearful of publishing anything reflecting badly on Biden, invented a brand new rule for 2002: if we think relevant information about Biden comes from a foreign source, we will hide it no matter how newsworthy it is. That's totally corrupted: anti-journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In 2016, someone took/stole Trump's tax returns and mailed it to the NYT newsroom. The NYT - as it should have - reported it despite not having any idea of the source. Their great reporter @DavidBarstow explained on NPR why the source doesn't matter: https://t.co/GHBfUUb9Ts — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The worst thing the media did in 2020 was completely change the most basic rule of journalism: we don't care who the source is or what their motive is. As long as the information is a) authentic and b) in the public interest, you report it. NBC's Lester Holt urged media not to. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@deaner__ I've written books on that topic, you fucking imbecile, along with hundreds of speeches, interviews, and articles. This is a tactic used by leftists like you to protect the FBI: don't report on how the FBI abuses its power since everyone already knows it does - lol. ✊ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One thing I think has been overlooked is CIA's lie that these docs were "Russian disinformation" was so provably false, yet media outlets mindlessly spread it. I knew the archive was real because all the indicia of authenticity were present. Listen to @peterschweizer explain: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ShellenbergerMD: 29. As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees — "Bu alumni" — working at Twitter that they had created their… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Note: the most overtly partisan Dem in corporate media -- who so happens to be NBC's "misinformation" reporter @oneunderscore__ -- published a false claim before the election that a Twitter campaign aimed at black voters had foreign origins. Even Yoel Roth admitted it was false: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@alexazzam40 Of course liberals want to claim that the reason I care about this story is because I'm just so eager to see Hunter Biden's dick -- in between, I'll bet, claiming the GOP is anti-LGBT -- but you think this not just because you're bigoted but also stupid: https://t.co/J9C1mXwI5O — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @SirajAHashmi: KJP repeating this claim about January 6th is particularly tiresome considering that it diminishes decades of historic at… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The main reason corporate media outlets disparage the Twitter Files reporting and then ignore it -- aside from petty professional jealousies over who got the story -- is they were complicit in it. They were the ones who spread CIA's lies that this was "Russian disinformation." https://t.co/UYMP2EJrWD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The full show -- which also covered the out-of-control increases in military spending: soon to reach a trillion dollars -- can be seen here. Tonight's episode, starting 7pm ET, will examine @ShellenbergerMD's new FBI reporting, and we'll speak to him: https://t.co/sQR9x6Jalc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The most crucial revelation from Taibbi's last reporting was that the FBI is now way beyond its supposed crime-fighting role. It's empowering itself to determine what is and is not "misinformation" and then directing Big Tech to censor that, all while Dem politicians say nothing: https://t.co/xGzlUEiVdC — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

We also discussed the last installment of the Twitter Files from @MattTaibbi, especially the evidence of how the FBI and the US Security State generally managed to implant itself inside the censorship regime of both Twitter and FB to manipulate the 2020 election: https://t.co/6SHOXVyDlc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On last night's @SystemUpdate_, we spoke to @mirandadevine -- one of the journalists who has covered the US Security State's control of Big Tech from the start -- about the latest revelations showing the role of the FBI in getting her paper's reporting about Joe Biden censored. https://t.co/7Jzm0jPkOv — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Frank Church's Senate investigation showed Americans, for the first time, how dangerous these agencies could be. It led to some mild reforms. He was an old-school Senate liberal from Idaho. Just stunning that if you now warn about this, you're called a "far-right" fanatic. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I named my 2014 book on my work with @Snowden -- No Place to Hide - after Frank Church's warning about what would happen if CIA, NSA, FBI turned their powers inward, to infiltrate our domestic politics. Snowden's main warning was that they had. But it's so much worse now: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @DavidSacks: We need a new Church Commission to investigate why the FBI and Intelligence Community are engaged in social media censorshi… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Many of the most beloved cable and even network news stars of US liberals -- aside from all the Bush/Cheney operatives they adore -- are former directors of the CIA, NSA, FBI, DOJ and Pentagon, who are just openly on the payroll of NBC and CNN and presented as "news analysts." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It continues to be so astounding that one of the big controversies of the 1960s and 1970s was that the CIA and FBI had secret ways of implanting propaganda inside corporate media. Now, these media corporations openly hire hordes of US Security State operatives as if it's normal. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Exactly -- although .... Corporate journalists always had a very subservient relationship to the US Security State; led by NYT, they claimed after the Iraq/WMD debacle they would no longer be so trusting of anonymous sources but, post-Trump, the relationship is closer than ever: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

When FB announced it would "suppress" the NY Post's reporting on Biden, it wasn't only Stone who was a Dem operative but also Anna Makanju, a key FB censor who worked for the Obama WH and then advised the Biden campaign. Anyway, go read NBC telling you it's all a nothing burger https://t.co/gboznEleL0 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Before announcing FB's censorship of NY Post's reporting on Biden, Stone worked for years for House Dems and @BarbaraBoxer. I've asked him repeatedly, but FB never released the "third-party fact check" he claimed would be done. Why? Obviously: because the docs were authentic. https://t.co/VdrlOPJwfe — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's important to remember that it wasn't only Twitter that censored the NY Post's reporting on Joe Biden. Facebook did it, too. They announced it through their comms exec -- a life-long Dem Party operative, @andymstone, who said this on Oct 14: https://t.co/YYcxHQLCd9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SethTheWhite That "big guy/10%" memo was published by the NY Post in their second story: the one that Twitter and FB censored based on CIA lies! Doesn't the fact that you know so little about this controversy, and are learning basic facts only now, disturb you at all? https://t.co/iAA0UUnDrS — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SethTheWhite https://t.co/S23Qv4BCoR — PolitiTweet.org