Glenn Greenwald
I don't blame @benjaminwittes for not fearing surveillance abuse against him: not even the most abusive govts target their devoted loyalists
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@benjaminwittes Go read about COINTELPRO and J Edgar Hoover and let me know who their targets mainly were.
Benjamin Wittes
@ggreenwald point is almost nobody is making the argument your challenge takes on or at least means it as literally as the challenge assumes
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@benjaminwittes Point is, big part of why you're so trusting of govt power is b/c of your relationship to US Govt power -
@ggreenwald I don't dispute that, but that's irrelevant to your point about the "nothing to hide" argument. Your challenge does not depend.. -
@benjaminwittes The fact that you don't make a certain argument doesn't mean that nobody makes the argument, Ben -
@ggreenwald My point is that the people who say they have nothing to hide mean a very thing by it than you do mean when you challenge them. -
@benjaminwittes No, you can speak for what you mean by it, not what everyone means by it. The speech resonated b/c so many make that point. -
@ggreenwald That's not really the way I would put it, and I don't subscribe to your paraphrase. But I can't think of a single thing I've...
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@benjaminwittes People who are dissidents, or activists, or in marginalized communities experience the world much differently than you do. -
@ggreenwald ...on how one feels about power or whether one is close to it or part of a marginalized community....
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