{"id":10068,"date":"2013-06-15T07:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:19:18","slug":"greenwald-responds-to-false-claims-threat-of-arrest-by-republican-congressman-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10068","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald Responds to False Claims, Threat of Arrest by Republican Congressman [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed The Guardian’s<\/em> Glenn Greenwald about the baseless claim<\/a> made by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), on Fox “News”, that Greenwald was “threatening to disclose” the identities of covert American CIA operatives.<\/p>\n

Additionally, and in flagrant disregard for the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, King had earlier disgraced himself by calling for the arrest<\/a> of journalist Greenwald, who originally broke the news on a number of the disclosures made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden<\/a>. (The additional irony here, of course, is that King himself actually is<\/i> an avowed supporter of terrorism<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Cooper and Greenwald then discussed the claim that American national security has been harmed by the disclosures made by Snowden, and why both citizens and journalists should never merely accept, at face value, such claims from public officials…<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: King also says that you should be prosecuted because of what you’ve already published, saying it puts American lives at risk”\u00a6When Wikileaks released huge amounts of information”\u00a6a lot of people said, you know, “They had blood on their hands. Julian Assange has had blood on his hands.” But then U.S. officials privately admitted to people in Congress and even publicly that even though the revelations were embarrassing, were a problem, that they couldn’t name anyone who really had lost their lives because of it. So now, when people are saying that you have put American lives at risk, do you believe that at all?<\/p>\n

GLENN GREENWALD: No. And Anderson, that point that you just made, in my opinion, is really the crucial point, for anybody listening, to take away. Every single time the American government has things that they’ve done in secret exposed or revealed to the world and they’re embarrassed by it, the tactic that they use is to try and scare people into believing that they have to overlook what they have done — they have to trust American officials to exercise power in the dark, lest they be attacked; that their security and safety depend upon placing this value in political officials. And I really think it’s the supreme<\/i> obligation of every journalist and every citizen when they hear an American official say — ‘this story about us jeopardizes national security’ — to demand specifics; to ask, what exactly it is that has jeopardized national security.<\/div>\n

King’s blatant lies about Greenwald ought to underscore his point that such officials are not to be merely trusted.<\/p>\n

Video of Anderson Cooper’s 6\/12\/2013 interview of Glenn Greenwald follows below…<\/em><\/p>\n