Dershowitz: Glenn Greenwald "Did This Because He Hates America"
PIERS MORGAN: Edward Snowden has said, 'I've committed a serious crime,' the newspaper has put this out there. Surely he [Glenn Greenwald] should be prepared to answer questions about whether anything they have done -- in cahoots with this guy, we don't know how far he goes -- anything they've done borders on criminality. I think it's a perfectly reasonable question.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Well, it doesn't border on criminality -- it's right in the heartland of criminality. The statute itself, does punish the publication of classified material, if you know that it's classified. And so, Greenwald -- in my view -- clearly has committed a felony.
And for him to take umbrage at the question -- now, he's right though that the government doesn't usually go after the publishers. They don't go after The New York Times, The Washington Post, in the Pentagon papers case, though they could have! They don't go after other newspapers -- in the WikiLeaks case -- though they could have. They've made a discretionary decision to go after the leaker but not the publisher.
Look, Greenwald's a total phony. He is anti-American, he loves tyrannical regimes, and he did this because he hates America. This had nothing to do with publicizing information. He never would've written this article if they had published material about one of his favorite countries. (Piers Morgan Live, June 24, 2013)
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