Apparently the “last honest and forthright” man east of the sea has gone on something of a purge binge.
This is extraordinary. @theintercept founder @ggreenwald, who in the past has called people who delete their tweets "cowards", appears to have deleted over 27,000 on July 22nd. This seems to be a very deliberate & systematic purge. Some I've checked relate to Russia & Syria https://t.co/c5YrAMVZWB
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) July 27, 2018
Check out this one, for example. The tweet is now gone. https://t.co/h8p3tZlpIl pic.twitter.com/s0lfcjLhLq
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) July 27, 2018
This tweet is also gone pic.twitter.com/85urOKsZzT
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) July 27, 2018
It appears Greenwald has deleted tweets by date. All older tweets in date ranges from 2013, 2014, 2015 are gone.
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) July 27, 2018
Note that Greenwald's views have paralleled the Kremlin since the start of the Syrian conflict. He has in fact actively recruited regime apologists. https://t.co/eNdA6kxgYe
— Idrees Ahmad (@im_PULSE) July 27, 2018
I don’t normally pay much attention to Greenwald, I had one email exchange with him back in 2008 or 2009 (I’m not going to check), which was only slightly more pleasant than the day Seb Gorka cold emailed me to try to sell me on taking his course on irregular warfare. This included him getting belligerent and declaring I obviously don’t care about irregular warfare when I asked him how he got my personal email address, followed by him groveling when I explained just who I actually am, followed by him breaking contact completely when I sent him my full CV. Good times… Anyhow, a couple of you emailed me to ask me if I’d seen this and what I thought was going. I honestly hadn’t until the first email came in and I have no real idea other than there are tweets that Greenwald doesn’t want anyone to see anymore. Maybe he’s trying to clean up his timeline. Maybe he’s worried about something. Maybe it’s am agreed upon clandestine signal to someone. Maybe he fell asleep with tweet deck open and his face mashed the delete button on his keyboard as he was having a nap. Perhaps the NSA or GCHQ will offer to provide him copies of what’s deleted just to feed his megalomaniacal paranoia Feel free to speculate in the comments before he or one of his sock puppets shows up to tell us all how this is all a neo-liberal plot and you’re all part of my national-security and intelligence communities conspiracy to silence him.
Speaking of the national-security and intelligence communities, yesterday was Intelligence Professionals Day.
Today is Intelligence Professionals Day, a day we designate each year to say thank you to the men and women of our Intelligence Community and commemorate the sacrifices they and their families make for our country. https://t.co/p1lvcZ3tGV
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) July 26, 2018
Did any of you bother to get a card? Flowers? Balloons? Cake? No, no you didn’t. All of your dossiers have been updated accordingly!
Open thread.