The interesting story isn't like what this guy's deal was or what his motives were . The story is like , oh , the government's lying to you again . And also that it's , they have this uh information that they claim is so vital that it's so horrible .
So a , a couple days after , uh , the leak first , like was getting reported , the , um , Reuters had a piece , an article , uh , where they had three high level us officials under anonymity said that you'll never believe this , Joe . It had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation . And so , isn't it just amazing that they'll go ?
At this point . They backed the coup that overthrew the democratic , uh , the democratically elected government under Yanukovych . They poured weapons into the country and they were doing , um , joint training exercises with NATO and the Ukrainian military .
The story is like , oh , the government's lying to you again . And also that it's , they have this uh information that they claim is so vital that it's so horrible . He leaked it and yet you're so reckless with it that , you know , it's like Uh , it's funny , I remember Glenn Greenwald making this point when people would talk about , uh , like people were at the national security apparatus or whatever would be talking about how , how reckless it is that Snowden just like , gave all of this information out .
They didn't even know it was gone until , uh , the Guardian published it . And then they were like , oh , I guess this guy took all of our documents . Um , what another , what did the documents say ?
