Greenwald is an advocate, outlining his opinion and supporting it with evidence. He starts with a news story, the NYT account of CIA torture tape destruction, analysizes its import and relates it to prior incidents and to opinion pieces he respects and wants to highlight. He does not strive for balance or fairness. While some find this a flaw in journalism, I don't mind it in an opinion piece. Greenwald synthesizes a lot of information in order to show the broadest of pictures about his concerns concerning the erosion of civil liberties. In an update, he provides an interesting link to "the annual survey of worldwide privacy rights conducted by Privacy International and EPIC has been released for 2007, and the U.S. has been ... More »

Man, is it TIME somebody took note of this egrigiousness. What the hell is wrong with Pelosi? The "yellow stain of Texas" is SO much worse than the blue dress's that one wonders if impeachment has been eviscerated as surely as our democracy. Help!, John Edwards.

Biting and angry but rather well founded and corroborated. A good opinion piece ... scored high as much because it seems to think black is black as for its biases.

The story captures excellently and in some detail the lawless society that this crime family of fascists has created with the willing complicity of the right wing democrats. In addition to the depressing litany of fecklessness, it might have added kudos to those rare politicians and independent media that have been railing against the descent into lawlessness, in the hope of adding to their support. The thrust of the story is on point and well presented.

This is a piece of commentary and not a news report. That said, it raises a point of fundamental justice - that elites who engage in patterns of destruction of evidence (CIA torture), or who can be protected by the official "state secrets privilege," or who are corporations associated with illegal wiretapping, or who evade Congressional subpoenas, are effectively beyond the law and are not subject to its reach. Ouch! There is a muffled rumbling of elites for "bipartisanship" - when there should be an overwhelming call instead for accountability.

Very uneven story about abuse by people in power. Many are well-substantiated, but fails to consider any possibility that there might be validity to counter-claims, e.g., the claim that John Edwards did harm to the medical system in North Carolina with lawsuits.

Greenwald suffers from an imbalance which I'm sure he feels is patriotism, weighing the importance of tidbits of government actors offered as news and of reporting by main stream media, with a cavalier disregard for the accepted explanations and platitudes using instead memory and common sense. He does not mention the 911 commission's so called report.....

Have reviewers read the review tips of newstrust.net? Does this story present new information? Does it fairly present all sides of the controversy? Is there factual evidence in this case? I would say no to all questions.