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[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.
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The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.
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I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.
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Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.
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It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.
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The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens it's how it treats its dissidents.
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A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
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The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.
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Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.
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As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.
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They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
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The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.
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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
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What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.
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I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
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The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.
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Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.
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