Snark of the day

Okay, so it's snark of yesterday. I didn't see it until today. Glenn Greenwald has waaaaay too much fun at the expense of Representative Jane Harman (D-CA), who is under investigation for allegedly using her position as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee to lobby the Bush Administration on behalf of a pair of alleged spies lobbyists. Greenwald gleefully gloats (sorry!):

So if I understand this correctly -- and I'm pretty sure I do -- when the U.S. Government eavesdropped for years on American citizens with no warrants and in violation of the law, that was "both legal and necessary" as well as "essential to U.S. national security," and it was the "despicable" whistle-blowers (such as Thomas Tamm) who disclosed that crime and the newspapers which reported it who should have been criminally investigated, but not the lawbreaking government officials. But when the U.S. Government legally and with warrants eavesdrops on Jane Harman, that is an outrageous invasion of privacy and a violent assault on her rights as an American citizen, and full-scale investigations must be commenced immediately to get to the bottom of this abuse of power. Behold Jane Harman's overnight transformation from Very Serious Champion of the Lawless Surveillance State to shrill civil liberties extremist.

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Mr. Greenwald goes on to have a bit more (justified) fun at Representative Harman's expense. He's right to: funny how all it takes is one teeny-tiny little criminal investigation into one's own alleged malfeasance to change one's tune about civil liberties. Representative Harman isn't looking at the big picture here! Instead of a divisive and partisan investigation, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Mr. Greenwald's entire post is worth reading, here at Salon.