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.
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
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.
Good grief. Pro Ecclesia has the link at LOL! The Dems Haven't Even Won Yet, and Already They're Calling for a Purge
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.
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ReplyDeleteI 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
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.
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