Servants of Power: WaPo & NYT Hunt Down Ukraine-Docs Leaker—Doing the FBI's Work for Them
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Good evening. It's Thursday, April 13th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. |
| 0:21.0 | Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM |
| 0:24.9 | Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:29.6 | Tonight, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old whom they claim is the person who leaked dozens of classified documents on the internet |
| 0:37.0 | showing far greater U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine that had been previously acknowledged by the Biden administration. |
| 0:44.3 | But it was not the FBI that hunted down and found the accused leaker, Jack Tishera of the Massachusetts |
| 0:50.1 | Air National Guard. |
| 0:51.4 | Instead, it was two newspapers. The Washington Post, which early |
| 0:55.7 | this morning provided every possible detail about the leaker to enable the FBI to |
| 0:59.9 | identify and find him. And then the New York Times which named him outed him before |
| 1:05.3 | the FBI could find him itself. They've now arrested him as a result of the |
| 1:10.2 | work of those two newspapers. It was their work in conjunction with the site Bellingat |
| 1:14.9 | funded by both the United States government and the EU |
| 1:17.9 | that enabled the FBI to find an apprehend the alleged leaker. |
| 1:21.9 | The idea of journalism, ostensibly, in theory, |
| 1:25.2 | is to bring transparency to what |
| 1:26.8 | the most secretive and powerful institutions |
| 1:28.8 | are doing in the dark. |
| 1:30.1 | Exactly what this leak did. |
| 1:32.4 | Why then would self-proclaimed journalism outlets do the job of the FBI and hunt down the leaker |
| 1:38.0 | and boast of the fact that they were the ones who found him even before the FBI did. |
| 1:44.0 | Why would a 21-year-old with the National Guard, |
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