Intercept Greenwald Klein Talk Waffling Full Disclosure

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Thu Oct 20 16:12:00 PDT 2016


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 08:30:44AM -0700, Razer wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 12:45 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> > https://theintercept.com/2016/10/19/is-disclosure-of-podestas-emails-a-step-too-far-a-conversation-with-naomi-klein/
> > youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/the_intercept/disclosure_glennnaomi_v1
> > 
> > Some news organizations, including The Intercept, have devoted
> > substantial resources to reporting on the newsworthy aspects of the
> > archive of emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that was
> > published last week by WikiLeaks. Numerous documents from that archive
> > have shed considerable light on the thought processes and previously
> > secret behavior of top Clinton campaign aides and often the candidate
> > herself. While the significance of particular stories has been
> > debated, there is no denying that many of those disclosures offer a
> > valuable glimpse into campaign operatives who currently exercise great
> > political power and who, as of January of next year, are likely to be
> > among the most powerful officials on the planet.
> > 
> > Despite her agreement with those propositions, the author and activist
> > Naomi Klein believes there are serious threats to personal privacy and
> > other critical political values posed by hacks of this sort,
> > particularly when accompanied by the indiscriminate publication of
> > someone’s personal emails.
> > 
> 
> 
> That's the downside of having power in a corporatist shitstem and it
> applies to their whore politicians too. Hillary Clinton is a public
> person in a high profile position. She HAS NO "Personal emails" afaic.
> Just like a corporate director has to get up at 3 am while in mid-fuck
> of some prostitute he hired for the night and get on a plane to 'put out
> a fire' threatening the corporation, someone whose secretary of state or
> president HAS NO PRIVATE LIFE.
> 
> Nor should they.


May be Trump with his love to "drain the swamp", would consider
all government expenditure as a valid, legitimate target for fully
detailed, transaction by transaction, publication? Including of course
direct (government bodies, individuals) and indirect (all private and
corporate contractors etc) payments. Every expense, every receipt for
everything - although perhaps excepting payment to prostitutes?


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