Whether he realizes it or not, Greenwald is a foreign intelligence officer’s dream.
Regardless of the actual authenticity of the Hunter emails, stuff like this is fairly easy to plant. So even if Greenwald got it right this time (maybe, maybe not), I can assure you that he will get it very wrong at least once in the future by the hands of a foreign intelligence officer (assuming he still has an audience).
Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents, especially digital documents, have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.
> Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents, especially digital documents, have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.
And who are those folks? Liberal media? Didn't they publish that embarrassingly fake accusation against Brett Kavanaugh that he gang-raped Julie Swetnick? Didn't they claim mutliple times to find "decisive proof" that Trump (himself) colluded with Russians, only to be humiliated again by Mueller report?
It seems that the media's standard for "verification of authenticity" depends a lot on who, or what party is getting accused.
> Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents [..] have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.
This is for me the key quote of his reply to the editors:
"Repeatedly over the past several months, I've brought to Betsy's attention false claims that were published by The Intercept [..] This rigorous editorial process emerges only when an article deviates from rather than recites the political preferences of The Intercept and/or the standard liberal view on political controversies."
In other words, verification is obsessive when the story doesn't support the political side of the newspaper. When it does, any amount of sloppiness is fine.
Regardless of the actual authenticity of the Hunter emails, stuff like this is fairly easy to plant. So even if Greenwald got it right this time (maybe, maybe not), I can assure you that he will get it very wrong at least once in the future by the hands of a foreign intelligence officer (assuming he still has an audience).
Folks who aggressively advocate for the verification of authenticity of documents, especially digital documents, have a very good reason for taking the stance that they do.