Opinionated Catholic: Democrats Ready to Conduct Purge

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Kyle Cupp said...: I would interpret Greenwald's piece in a different context. The Salon.com blogger is not a political analyst looking at how best to maintain a Democrat majority in Congress. Greenwald's principles overrule his party loyalty. His chief concern lately has been the evisceration of civil rights by an unaccountable warfare state. I know of no blogger more diligent in shining a light on the grave harm of warrantless eavesdropping powers than Glenn Greenwald. And he's is miffed because Democrats, even when they controlled the Congress, and including Senator Obama, have given in to President Bush's requests for additional wartime spying powers.; July 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM
James H said...: Kyle

I would say that his viewpoint over the issue of FISA is a tad extreme. I also expect that he worried more about powers the executive have way before the current White House came in; July 30, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Kyle Cupp said...: The extreme position isn’t necessarily the wrong position. I’ve been reading Greenwald for less than a year, so I don’t know, but I would expect that he was critical of former administrations: Clinton was no foe of the warfare state, having helped set the stage for much of what the current administration has accomplished.; July 31, 2008 at 8:07 AM

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