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Glenn Greenwald clearly doesn't understand the difference between journalism and editorialising. Does he seriously believe that the WaPo should have ignored the Snowden revelations about legitimate overseas intelligence operations, despite the fact that they knew that other news outlets were going to publish them? Does he not understand that the newspaper's job is to report the news?

What a douchenozzle.

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They published the documents snowden gave them. They could have chosen not to and in fact they did in many other cases, only a small portion of the documents were ever published. None were published by snowden himself. He specifically wanted wapo to make the determination about what is actually in the public interest. They decided to publish the prism documents themselves.

If The Post believed that publishing the details of these programs was not in the public interest, then the news would have been "The Guardian newspaper recklessly endangers national security by leaking details of legitimate classified programs"

Actually leaking the details themselves isn't a neutral act, they willfully participated in the process that their editorial board is now condemning.

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