The above video is a panel discussion on the use of fear of terrorism in this country to quash civil liberties. It is over an hour long, and I would not put it up except for the exchange that takes place at 53:00 between Glenn Greenwald and a dumb-ass reporter from NPR, Dina Temple-Raston. She snaps at Greenwald, says she has seen things he hasn’t (but oddly doesn’t report on). She tells him that he “doesn’t do national security for a living.”
Greenwald disassembles her, and also says that actually, national security is what he does report on for a living. But the upshot is this: Temple-Raston is just another “journalist” being managed by the National Security State, fed information and told to report it as fact. Someone slips her a note, and she feels the part of the insider, and winks and carries on with her stenography, and calls it journalism, and calls herself a “national security reporter.”
Piece of Mindful 
Wonder what she thinks of drone attacks in countries never discussed or imagined by Congress in 2003. Or has the okay to do whatever is necessary given to Bush been extended to whatever country for whatever reason, on and on, ad infinitum? On what authority do we bomb Pakistan, Yemen and other places where alleged terrorists have been reported? If bombs or missiles fell on Colorado we damn sure would call it an act of war.
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