NBC's Gregory: Why shouldn't Greenwald be charged?
■ NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory got a rise out of Glenn Greenwald on Sunday by asking the Guardian reporter why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for having "aided and abetted" former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden. ■ Greenwald said Gregory was embracing the Obama administration's attempt to "criminalize investigative journalism." ■ Later, Greenwald tweeted, "Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?" and, "Has David Gregory ever publicly wondered if powerful DC officials should be prosecuted for things like illegal spying & lying to Congress?"
Justin Raimondo: The authoritarians are coming! Indeed, they are already here… - "To the extent that you have aided and abetted Edward Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn’t you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?” To this onscreen transformation of a supposed "journalist" into the Grand Inquisitor, Greenwald responded: "I think it’s pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies." Well, yes, it is extraordinary, but I think we should all be getting used to it pretty soon. It was clear what Gregory was doing: letting the journalistic mask slip for a moment, and assuming his real role as the Voice of the Powers That Be, he was issuing a direct threat on behalf of his government Sources.