Glenn Greenwald Don't Play

Oh, no...he don't.  He will call out anyone on anything at any time about what he believes is right.  He was a constitutional law and civil rights litigator.  Litigator.  He is accustomed to getting facts and he will argue you or a point into the ground and won't let go.  Even I was annoyed* with him over his haranguing then Sen. Obama's position on the FISA vote.  Yeah, I disagreed with Obama on his position, but frankly, got tired of Greenwald being such a harridan about the point.

Greenwald took a position against appointing John Brennan as anything having to do with the Intelligence Community in the Obama Administration because he saw Brennan as condoning torture...and he wouldn't let it go, getting into several back and forths with other bloggers including Spencer Ackerman.  Spencer, bless his heart, argued his point more than ably but admitted that arguing with Greenwald is not for the faint of heart.

Greenwald does not play.  After years of working with litigators, some good, some bad, some lazy and some downright stupid, I think I can spot one who is not just in it for aggrandizement.  Greenwald, I believe, is in it for the love of the Constitution and the rule of law and will slap anyone who sullies them in the face.  And oh...to have been able to type or edit his legal briefs.  He is the kind of lawyer who old lit sec battleaxes like me at the very least, respect.

And he hates hypocrisy.  This update paragraph in his column today about what a DC whore Tom Daschle apparently is, is priceless.

When they met, Tom was 33 and married with three children, and Linda was 23 and single (and 3 years away from having been crowned Miss Kansas). He and his first wife then divorced and shortly thereafter married Linda. It's amazing how many politicians love to self-righteously tout what a "sacred and traditional cultural bond" is the male-female marital union even as they parade around with their much-younger latest wife, whom they met while still enmeshed in a "sacred and traditional bond" with their first wife.

Preach it, Glenny.  This thought is an aside.  You should really read the whole column.  Greenwald thinks and writes in argumentative legal briefs.  I don't always agree with him, but damn I love the way he sets it out.

* I am sorry to say that Too Sense is no longer in existence so the link within my post won't work.