Great point. I'd like to see David Brooks and the rest of the useful idiots try and struggle to keep up with the releases. I'd like to imagine folks as smart as Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald have approached the releases of these documents strategically, considering the inevitable responses from the status quo and its servants.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to predict their responses to each type of revelation.
They try to downplay the scope of the snooping? Retort with documents showing the number of collaborating service providers and types of materials gathered.
They try to downplay the impact of this on innocent Americans? Release documents showing specific abuses.
etc. and ad nauseaum until the hypocrites, phonies, and apologists are exposed for exactly what they are.
I suppose only time will tell, but I know a lot of people that are getting more and more interested in this.
I don't think they'll highlight specific abuses, as greenwald already commented on the difficulty of that. If you point out some innocent being surveilled, you've just exposed them to the world. If you point out someone guilty being surveilled (though guilt would be impossible to determine a priori and from their perch), you've just tipped them off. I'm very curious to see the content of the next releases, and like the one of the commenters above, I do hope there's a deadman switch, though killing greenwald now would be an epic mistake on the govt's part. THAT would set off a firestorm. More than likely, they've already hacked his computer and have read the docs and are preparing how to respond to the upcoming revelations.
> I'd like to see David Brooks and the rest of the useful idiots try and struggle to keep up with the releases.
Its not like Brook's facile drivel takes all that much effort; its not like its designed to stand up to scrutiny by anyone thinking deeply, its just to give people an excuse not to think deeply.
I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to predict their responses to each type of revelation.
They try to downplay the scope of the snooping? Retort with documents showing the number of collaborating service providers and types of materials gathered.
They try to downplay the impact of this on innocent Americans? Release documents showing specific abuses.
etc. and ad nauseaum until the hypocrites, phonies, and apologists are exposed for exactly what they are.
I suppose only time will tell, but I know a lot of people that are getting more and more interested in this.