Thread by @ggreenwald

That the "Democracy-Dies-in-Darkness™" WashPost now does the job of the US Security State by hunting down its leakers and doing everything to expose their identity really says everything about the real function and ideology of these media corporations.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Recall that the WPost did the same thing with Edward @Snowden. They gleefully used part of the archive he obtained, published those docs, praised themselves for the Pulitzer they co-won, and then. . . .

Demanded he be imprisoned and never pardoned:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1645453225611386880

This then-Huff-Post reporter, @ryanjreilly, has devoted his life to doing the FBI's work, hunting anyone associated with 1/6. He swooned when AG Garland praised "#SeditionHunters" for their service. For it, he got promoted to NBC. This is state media:

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1451321951813836805

They work hand-in-hand with @bellingcat, funded by the US and EU: just like the "disinformation experts" whom they cite and prop up.

The uproar over NPR and BBC getting a "state-funded" Twitter label is because all these media outlets function as state media for these agencies.

All that said, I continue to be skeptical about the motives behind this leak. For all the talk about how devastating and destabilizing it is for the US: how?

The NYT today touts how the docs show Russian "infighting" and how they can't win the war.

nytimes.com/2023/04/13/wor…

As we review and report the docs on @SystemUpdate_, we're posting them here. They're all over the internet. Media has them. Especially for those in the public interest - showing deep US involvement in the war in Ukraine - the public should, too:

greenwald.locals.com/post/3838842/l…

We still don't know who leaked the draft Dobbs ruling because that went to a liberal corporate outlet. (POLITICO).

We still haven't seen the manifesto of the Nashville shooter because it's inconvenient.

But this leak was put on Discord, so media outlets are hunting for him.

A big part of what's driving this:

Many corporate media employees most hate those who do what they pretend to do: expose the secret crimes and lies of the US Security State. Those agencies are their allies and masters.

That's why they're hunting to find the leaker instead.