Glenn Greenwald delivered the keynote speech Friday on the Chaos Communications Congress, an annual hacker convention, and during his near-hour long speech, he took some pictures at American and British media for performing like govt spokespeople and now not doing their due diligence in NSA reporting. Particularly, he mocked the bravery of journalists and media figures keen to go over and past to bash Edward Snowden however no longer dare tackle the federal government with the same ire.

Greenwald stated, “Their position is to not be adversarial, their function is to be loyal spokespeople to these highly effective factions that they pretend to exercise oversight.”

He referred to these journalists as “very, very courageous” in their condemnation of a person who’s already being condemned and marginalized via your entire Washington institution, simplest to then turn around and no longer dare tackle the government in the identical manner.

“You’re going to be exhausting-pressed to search out even a single a kind of brave, intrepid journalists ever even take into accounts, let by myself express the speculation, that director of national intelligence James Clapper needs to be topic to the rule of thumb of regulation.”

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