Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

Is that what it was ? Well , it seems that way , you know , a lot of people kind of were uh were criticizing the guy and they , they were kind of saying like , well , look , this guy is no , Ed Snowden . I mean , he didn't like take this to Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian to have him vet through it and properly disclose it .

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

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 . And you're like , well , then weren't you pretty reckless too ?

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

The Joe Rogan experience , the leaked document . Like , what was your thoughts on that ?

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

Well , just right before that one of the , the other real interesting thing is that they came out . 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 .

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

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 ?