What About the Reporter?

In case you haven't been following along, in addition to the completely predictable attempts to smear Ed Snowden as a traitor (not to mention a good-for-nothing publicity hound), they've also been accusing Glenn Greenwald, who reported on the documents Snowden delivered to him, of the same.  Interestingly enough, there don't seem to be any calls to arrest or any smearing of the Washington Post reporter to whom Snowden gave documents and who reported on the PRISM program the same day that Greenwald did.  Of course, that reporter is a Washington insider, while Greenwald is not only an outsider, but a very vocal opponent of government intrusion on civil liberties.  In a nutshell, here's a short post on the matter, in defense of Greenwald, and putting the lie to claims that he most likely put Snowden up to getting the documents.  I haven't been posting anything about those claims, or the smearing going on about Snowden and his personal life, because they are not only predictable and false, they are not the issue we need to be spending our time on.  The government's turn to a police state is.  Killing the messenger doesn't change the message, it only distracts from it.  Which is the point, of course.