Greenwald is also on the team of people that blew the lid off the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program.
If you read the rest of the article, he makes some very good points, and almost says exactly what Ben Franklin said:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Agreed. The general principle is sound.
I just don’t like the hypocrisy when some white guy does mass murder. Or the constant haranguing for gun confiscation.
I understand your point, and do not support giving law enforcement vast new powers for star-chamber investigations. But I am not convinced by Greenwald’s claim that the FBI handled this properly.
Greenwald writes that co-workers informed the FBI that Mateen openly proclaimed association with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. So while investigating Mateen for connections to specific terrorists, the FBI is told that Mateen himself claimed to be associated with major terrorist organizations, yet they chose to close the case for lack of probable cause?
Could daddy’s involvement with the White House as a potential Taliban go-between had anything to do with closing the case? I would certainly like to see an inquiry into all communications between the DoJ/FBI/White House related to Mateen.
Oh, we all agree. But the media doesn’t take this freedom loving tack unless it’s a Muslim mass terrorist.