As you read this be sure to recall that Bob Woodward received “secret” info from FBI Agent Mark Felt that ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize and today walks about with near legendary status.
It was recently announced that both columnist Glen Greenwald (issued in the name of the Guardian, the publishers of his work) and Bart Gellman (of the Washington Post) received Pulitzer’s for articles written using information sourced from Snowden’s alleged release of so-called “national security secrets.” But yet, juxtaposing the two separate events, Mark Felt vs. Ed Snowden, we’ve yet to filter Snowden’s actions in a manner far less provocative, however far more critically necessary, than those queried by Woodward.
For example: What actions threatening the constitutionally protected rights of American citizens are appropriately and/or justifiably deemed to be national secrets? What possible argument can be crafted that would endorse severing a sovereign right from the foundation upon which those very rights are sourced as being sovereign without the claimed premise being nothing less than a demonstration of pure tyranny? I’m still thinking…….
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
