Greenwald: Corporate Journalists Report Classified Info All The Time With “Authorized Leaks” From Anonymous Sources

“…Anybody whoever has picked up the ‘New York Times,’ ‘The Washington Post’ or has the misfortune of hearing MSNBC or CNN knows that corporate journalists, every single day, report classified information that has been leaked. They go on TV all the time and they say anonymous sources told us X, Y, and Z…

…Yet, none of this kind of uproar ever happens because those are authorized leaks,” Greenwald continued. “These are things the CIA or the FBI or the Pentagon want the American people to hear. It’s a form of propaganda. What’s different here is that this was an unauthorized leak. It reveals that the Biden administration has been lying about the extent of their role in Ukraine and a whole variety of other things about this extremely important war.”

“Whatever your views on what war are we should want to know about this, but they don’t want us to know about it,” he said. “So now it’s suddenly we have to clamp down harder. We have to keep things more secret. We have to spy on you and take away your rights. And the amazing thing is as you just showed the people demanding this most loudly are people who call themselves journalists. They’re the ones down at the Pentagon saying do more to keep everything secret except for the things you tell us to tell the American people.”

“You showed Edward Snowden in the package you put together and that was the reporting we did now 10 years ago or so. And what that showed was under Obama in the name of the war on terror, all this immense, mass indiscriminate spying aimed at the American people is being conducted. Courts ultimately ruled it was unconstitutional in the legal. But it never really went anywhere, Jesse. They still have this gigantic spying system in place. Not on Al-Qaeda or China or ISIS, but at the American people. That is the framework of the U.S. security state. They regard American citizens as enemies and they are using this incident now as an excuse to justify even more domestic spying,”…”