Reuters
Calls
Greenwald
Activist, Ban
Said Snowden
Misused, Spies
at
UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 8 --
Some were
surprised when
Reuters,
reporting
on US spying on
Petrobras,
said Globo's
information
came from
"Glenn
Greenwald,
an American
activist
who has worked
with fugitive
former
NSA analyst
Edward
Snowden."
Isn't
Snowden a
whistleblower,
and
Greenwald a
journalist?
But
this is NOT
surprising
from Reuters.
Its bureau at
the UN has
repeatedly
tried to get
the
investigative
Press thrown
out, going
so
far as to spy
for the UN to
do it.
Reuters bureau
chief Louis
Charbonneau
gave UN
accreditation
official
Stephane
Dujarric
an
internal
document of
the UN
Correspondents
Association, three minutes
after
promising not
to do so.
Story
here, audio here,
document
here.
So
not only is
Reuters
amenable to
the US' spying
-- it does
spying
itself, for
the UN.
UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon said
Snowden
"misused"
information
and his
position, then
insisted what
he said was in
a
"private"
meeting
with the
Iceland
parliament.
Reuters'
Charbonneau
and Michelle
Nichols, not
surprisingly,
are routinely
spoon-fed
information by
the UN and
missions,
particularly
UN
Peacekeeping
as run by its
fourth
Frenchman in a
row, Herve
Ladsous.
And when challenged
or scrutinized
as it was
by Inner City
Press last
week
on Syria,
Reuters UN
bureau expands
its anonymous
trolling,
now through
at least two
counterfeit
Inner City
Press social
media
accounts.
This
has been documented
this year to
Reuters' big
shots ranging
from
Stephen J.
Adler, Editor
in Chief, Paul
Ingrassia,
Deputy Editor
in
Chief, and
Walden Siew,
Top News
to its former
social media
editor;
nothing was
done.
It's Reuters
which is an
activist --
but in these
cases, just an
activist or
assistant to
power. And
Power. Watch
this
site.