Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency’s phone and internet surveillance programs, on Monday disputed claims that the leaks threatened national security.
“In every single case over the past four to five decades, when there are revelations of wrongdoing that is done in secret, what the strategy of the U.S. government is is to try and come out and scare the American public into saying, these people have jeopardized you, there’s going to be a terrorist attack,” Greenwald said Monday on NBC’s "Today." “There’s not a single revelation that we’ve provided to the world that even remotely jeopardizes national security.” ...The Hill
So right! Maybe we'll catch onto reality here and accept that our government -- for decades! -- has invoked "national security" when, in fact, it means security for the institution of government at the expense of security for the people. Security for young civilians was considerably decreased when they were sent to Iraq by an administration looking to regain its own security after demonstrating wild incompetence in the run-up to 9/11. Security for all of us goes up when a whistleblower "outs" government incompetence and corruption but goes down when the government, looking to cover its butt, expands the reach of censorship and asks for harsh punishment of the leaker.
