Glenn Greenwald's Take on Investigative Journalism

          Once again Glenn Greenwald showed us how a smart excellent-educated individual could have a completely screwed up perception on simple things. Like need to reflect on issues before discussing them. Like "don't bubble out everything you learned to the world at large". And  -  let's call the things by their actual names. Like treason. A clear-cut act of treason commited by army private Bradley Manning.
         Now I don't think anybody would expect  good Gleen to understand what would it mean to put your life on the line, like it was done in American history - and still is done now - by many thousands of men and women. And nobody would require that Glenn - who, by the way, has been greatly benefited by American system - would in turn feel the sense of real patriotism. Everybody who follows politics knows well enough that Glenn Greenwald would not go to the battlefield to fight for our liberty. He chooses another battle - to extend his full support to Mr. Manning, either a mindless young man in search of his own popularity - or your typical renegade, a felon convicted of a whole bunch of crimes, the worst of them is putting in great danger the lives of his comrades-in-arms. Although I think not to many folks who ever served in uniform will call this man a comrade. He is a traitor, pure and simple. Even Jeff Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and New York Times, who by no means could be called conservative, fervently disagreed on CNN with Greenwald on this issue. So why Mr. Greenwald and his friends have chosen to support him?
            Before anybody on the far left will accuse me of opposing the 1st Amendment, let me state clear that I am completely in favor of Mr. Greenwald's right to express his opinion, no matter how outrageous it seems to a lot of folks. I am even glad he and others at his side continue showing to America their disrespect for the people in American uniform and their disregard for the lives of men and women who serve their country in harm's way - so that we all know where everyone stands. But why do they do that? In his discussion with Jeff Toobin on Anderson Cooper's show, Mr.Greenwald called Bradley Manning's publishing of 750,000 highly classidied army and intelligence documents an act of "investigative journalism". Really? So displaying those documents by an army private to everyone in the world, including our worst enemies is not a treason? It's not an act of betrayal? It's not a violation of the military pledge which Mr. Manning took voluntarily upon himself? You've got to be kidding.
            The thing is that Glenn Greenwald, without acknowledging it, subscribes to the old ideas of anarchy, where there is no laws, no rules and no law enforcement. I would love to see how Mr. Greenwald - and great many of his genossen -will survive in these circumstances.