Thread by @ggreenwald

When it comes to the actions by the world’s most powerful governments, I’d rather hear what they have to say than have newspapers protect me from it. We should just explain to adults that when a newspaper publishes someone’s opinion, it doesn’t mean they agree with it:

https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1311729935833333767

When the Obama Admin seized the right to target US citizens for assassination with no due process, and then went on an unprecedented orgy prosecuting whistleblowers for espionage — 2 of the gravest civil liberties threats in decades — I wanted to hear from them justifying it.

Same when Bush/Cheney set up worldwide torture camps as CIA black sites, kidnapped people off the streets, created a due-process-free island prison, etc. Media should tell us how they defend it.

Same reason the US media blackout of Al Qaeda explaining 9/11 was a disservice.

And oh, just by the way: there are still dozens of people in cages in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, people kept for almost 20 years **with no trials**. No convictions of accused 9/11 attackers. And they keep delaying the trials indefinitely. Odd, no?

npr.org/2020/09/30/918…