dailycaller | “I think it’s pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call
themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other
journalists should be charged with felonies,” Greenwald said. “The
assumption in your question, David, is completely without evidence — the
idea I’ve aided and abetted him in any way. The scandal that arose in
Washington before our stories began was about the fact that the Obama
administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism by
going through the emails and records of AP reporters, accusing a Fox
News journalist of the theory you just embraced — being a co-conspirator
in felonies for working with sources. If you want to embrace that
theory, it means every investigative journalist in the United States who
works with their sources [and] receives classified information is a
criminal. And it’s precisely those theories and precisely that climate
that has become so menacing in the United States. It’s why the New
Yorker’s Jean Mayer said investigative reporting has come to a
‘standstill,’ her word, as a result of the theories you just
referenced.”
Gregory reacted to Greenwald’s reply by questioning whether or not
what Greenwald was engaging in was journalism and that he was only
asking a question.
“Well, the question of who’s a journalist may be up to a debate with
regard to what you are doing and of course anybody who was watching this
understands what I was doing,” Gregory said. “And that question has
been raised by lawmakers, as well. I’m not embracing anything. But
obviously, I take your point.”
