Comment by brown9-2

Hacker News is the one place I've consistently found good information related to this extremely important case (that and Greenwald's twitter account itself).

I think this advice will more likely than not fall on deaf ears but I would caution anyone getting all or most of their news on this subject from just HN and/or Greenwald. I've found that most of the coverage on HN has been extremely one-sided, and of course it is the most sensationalist articles (like when the NSA supposedly admitted in a Congressional hearing that any analyst could start listening to any US Person's phone calls) that get the most upvoted, and the articles either refuting or casting serious doubts on those initial stories (Rep Nadler: "nope that wasn't what was said") get a fraction of the votes.

There are more sides to this story than just what is receiving the most upvotes and I think a lot of people are allowing the story to confirm whatever prior beliefs they had (which for most is that the US is a police state).

When you think about it, this story is still only a few weeks and old and it's way too early to think we even know enough to draw any concrete conclusions, yet alone get drawn into the "hero vs traitor" waste of time.