Tag: glenn greenwald

A new revelation from the Snowden files does open a degree of insight into what has been happening. It's just not the insight that Snowden nor Greenwald may have anticipated.

Glenn Greenwald is out with another piece about the NSA: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in […]

Today’s “explosive” news is that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. Glenn Greenwald, writing at The Guardian, reports: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in […]

The big news today is President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan. I’ll be the first to admin that I don’t really know that much about Kagan. Eliot Spitzer, a long time friend of Kagan’s, was out today giving her big praises. To me, that endorsement is enough to say she […]

A priceless example of a spineless television host unable to handle hearing other views.

This week we had another example emerge of why a V.P. Sarah Palin would be detrimental to the future of our nation. Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to […]

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent timeline put together highlighting the growth of this whole lipstick bullshit. It really shows you how an innocent analogy gets turned into the most talked about controversy, with the help of the media and internets.

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, along with two producers, were arrested in St. Paul yesterday. Democracy Now sent out the following email update over night: Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC Goodman Charged with Obstruction; Felony Riot Charges Pending Against Kouddous and Salazar Glenn Greenwald […]

And the spineless Democrats have agreed to immunity for the telecom giants. Glenn Greenwald has all the details on this travesty and McJoan has some steps you can take to help preserve our nation of laws.

The big F.U. that corporate media execs gave to the American people and, more importantly, U.S. soldiers. Jessica Yellin told Anderson Cooper last night the following: Yellin: I think the press corps dropped the ball in the beginning when the lead up to war began, uh the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate […]