I can't believe this interviewer is quite as stupid as she comes off. So why the bizarre attacks, why act like a Government mouthpiece rather than a journalist?
Experienced and evil leaders keep these "panicked protectors" like Wark in their pocket and deploy them strategically to try to discredit and induce uncertainty to maintain control.
It's likely she doesn't perceive/assess her own wisdom, just her own loyalty. She is, in this sense, completely "domesticated." She actually laps up the fact she's a pet of her government's press.
Ugh, just typing that phrase "her government's press" makes me almost as ill as I felt listening to her desperate, hiccuping interruptions of Greenwald. I hope to hell more and more people learn to perceive interviews like this as the propaganda they are and to discredit those who employ such tactics. Minority/marginalize idealist leaders, here's your window of opportunity.