Washington Post Admits to Publishing Total Lies about Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks!

• Washington Post admits to publishing total lies about Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks! 
  by J. D. Heyes, Natural News 
  It’s not often that a major news organization in America admits when it makes a mistake, so it is definitely news when one does. In this case, it’s the Washington Post.
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  Like so many other mainstream American news agencies, newspapers, websites and magazines, the Post seemed more outraged by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosure that the agency he worked for was spying on Americans’ electronic communications – in violation of U.S. law and the agency’s mandate – than the fact that the FBI has targeted U.S. journalists and reporters pursing legitimate stories.
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  ‘Factual errors, innuendo’
  The Post’s angst was typified by national security reporter Walter Pincus, who ripped into Snowden and, by extension, Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story. Prior to that story, the Post also questioned Greenwald’s motives for reporting the story in the first place. That’s quite a change of heart for the newspaper that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story of Watergate.
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  “Glenn Greenwald isn’t your typical journalist. Actually, he’s not your typical anything. A lawyer, columnist, reporter and constitutional liberties advocate, Greenwald blurs a number of lines in an age in which anyone can report the news,” the Post’s Paul Fahri wrote June 23.
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  “Did Edward Snowden decide on his own to seek out journalists and then a job at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Hawaii facility as an IT systems administrator to gather classified documents about the National Security Agency’s worldwide surveillance activities?” Pincus wrote in his piece July 8.
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  Pincus went on to make a number of assertions and statements that were, writes John Nolte at Breitbart News, “riddled with factual errors, half-truths, and innuendo,” as evidenced by the paper’s “lengthy three paragraph correction” published online shortly thereafter.
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  Pincus’ diatribe was rebutted within hours by none other than Greenwald himself which he made available online.
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  Among the “factual errors” and innuendo committed by Pincus, as pointed out by Greenwald:
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  – Pincus wrote, “On April 10, 2012, Greenwald wrote for the WikiLeaks Press’s blog about Poitras and WikiLeaks being targeted by U.S. government officials.”
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  Greenwald responded: “I have no idea what you’re talking about here, and neither do you. I never wrote anything “for the WikiLeaks Press’s blog”. How you decided to pull that fact out of thin air is a genuine mystery.” He went onto say that “April 10, 2012, article of mine you seem to be referencing – about the serial border harassment of the filmmaker Laura Poitras – was written for Salon, where I was a Contributing Writer and daily columnist. Neither it, nor anything else I’ve ever written, was written ‘for the WikiLeaks Press’s blog’.”
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