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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald, journalist who helped Edward Snowden expose NSA spying, once was a lawyer who owed [View all]Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 27, 2013, 05:09 AM - Edit history (6)
Please provide a link.
Are you talking about the debunked thread where SOMEONE ELSE called her an Obama operative on Twitter but the OP left it implied that Greenwald did? Reid asked her question of Greenwald, about him supposedly not responding to questions about Snowden getting the Booz Allen job, and he responded with links to interviews showing he clearly did, in answer to her question. Her implication that Greenwald had not addressed the issue was false. That's all. There was no more Twitter conversation as the OP implied.
Then, she referenced being called an 'Obama operative,' which apparently comes from this earlier Twitter conversation where Greenwald does NOT call her an Obama operative, but, rather, makes an argument about automatic assumption of validity of journalists: http://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-greenwald-blasts-joy-ann-reid-msnbc-for-blind-acceptance-of-obamas-narrative-on-nsa
...and then someone else in the later Twitter thread called her that, repeating HER words.
It was pointed out in the OP that much in the thread was confused, misleading or misrepresentative.
(He may have called her an 'Obama operative' somewhere else, but I can't find any evidence of it. Those seem to be HER words. If you can find an incident where he did, please post it.)
Also:
http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-revelations-response-to-smears
The lawsuit he referenced was one where the LLC had sued a video producer in (I believe) 2002 after the producer reneged on a profit-sharing contract. In response, that producer fabricated abusive and ugly emails he claimed were from me they were not in order to support his allegation that I had bullied him into entering into that contract and he should therefore be relieved from adhering to it. Once our company threatened to retain a forensic expert to prove that the emails were forgeries, the producer quickly settled the case by paying some substantial portion of what was owed, and granting the LLC the rights to use whatever it had obtained when consulting with him to start its own competing business.
The second item the reporter had somehow obtained was one showing an unpaid liability to the IRS stemming, it appears, from some of the last years of my law practice. I've always filed all of my tax returns and there's no issue of tax evasion or fraud. It's just back taxes for which my lawyers have been working to reach a payment agreement with the IRS.
You do realize you are proving the OP's point?