Greenwald and Taibbi blast media on Air Guardsman Teixeira

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‘Sorry — Of Course I’m Going to Name That Person’

The moment the New York Times reported the leak of classified military documents to Discord and other Internet outposts, journalists began racing to identify and locate the source of the materials. Unnamed military analysts immediately speculated to the Times that the source could be Moscow disinformation jockeys, but in short order, the press, including the Washington Post and others, traced the breadcrumbs back to Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman, as did the FBI, which arrested him on espionage charges.

The press took a bow for its sleuthing, but not everybody was cheering their enterprise. Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald took to Fox News on April 13 to accuse reporters of doing the FBI’s bidding by leading them to Teixeira. “He did the job of what journalists claim to do, which is to show the public the truth,” Greenwald said. Media corporations “love leaks when the CIA and Homeland Security tell them to leak,” he added, but they take the government’s side when a leak “undermines the agenda of these agencies.”

Journalist Matt Taibbi seconded Greenwald on his Substack, writing that the news media, which once luxuriated in leaks like the Pentagon Papers or the WikiLeaks “War Logs,” was now applying a hypocritical standard to the Discord leaks. The press corps’ pursuit of Teixeira, Taibbi stated, showed that reporters were morphing from “public advocate to cop,” and that the unmasking efforts would deter future sources from releasing government secrets. Playing the role of “snitch” was a bad look for reporters, he maintained. “The press loses its institutional power the moment the public ceases to view it as being separate from government,” he asserted.

Bracing stuff, but is the establishment media really in the tank for the national security state? At almost every juncture in the modern era, journalists have sought to expose the identities of major leakers.

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