I think Glenn Greenwald sees benefit to the approach of piecemeal releasing the Snowden files . Sensitizing rather than desensitizing.

Magnesium club?

Beefheart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

In Joe Haldeman's SF novel 'Buying Time'(previously called 'The Long Habit of Living')
there's a drug called zombie with the effect of rendering a person catatonic while speeding up their perception of time a thousandfold.
So in effect while people are incapacitated for a few days, it feels like 20 years. And some can handle it and some can't.
Good read.

I mention that because it fits Snowdens description of himself (if I remember correctly). Hence the reflex reaction to get rid anyone who shares some attributes with Snowden.

That much is a serious speculation. As for a discussion on the gap between libertarians and more 'core' conservatives, I would be opiniated and possibly boring.

- get rid of as many sysadmins as possible
- screen sysadmins for libertarian tendencies and for caring too much about the constitution
- make sure information is less widely accessible
- increase monitoring of everyone who accesses information
- prepare to make a few token concessions for public consumption .. but, but.. we sort of hoped you'd cut back on the surveillance schemes! You know, mend your ways?
Do what? Hm no, we didn't think of that. Why would we have to do that then ?

Maybe he anticipated how they would try to play the game?

I don't think that's the explanation. He's been trying to play things pretty straight. He's said before that he's used internal channels and now he's only being more explicit. There's also a downside into dragging in other people. They didn't want to stick their necks out , certainly not if they predicted -rightly- a serious backlash. This is normal-person-behavior. It's 'not daring', and that's very different from 'not caring'.
So why should he shine the spotlight on them unless there's a very good reason?

Thirdly, I got a bridge to sell, wanna buy it ?

That is interesting. Not that I'm a potential buyer but I still would like to hear how you ended up with a spare bridge on your hands :)

one of many indeed. I'm sure that quote from around 1920 has been repeated endlessly. Einstein's support for Israel is the default assumption. That's what everyone takes as a given. And it's heavily biased. The Jerome book has other quotes as well, and gives a better picture of how his positions and opinions evolved over time.

Nothing about being opposed to Israel.

Maybe you should read Jerome's book then.
http://www.amazon.com/Einstein...

He was firmly opposed to quantum theory

He was firmly opposed to the non-deterministic interpretation of QM, in the sense that he believed a really fundamental theory should be deterministic. He didn't doubt the predictive power of the theory. I think it's worthwile to make that distinction.

I doubt if Einstein would have called himself anti-zionist because the meaning of zionism was a bit wider in those days. It's just that his strain of zionism has very little relation to Israel as we know it because he was not a nationalist and certainly not in favor of an ethnocracy.
But I think you could say he was a cultural zionist.

This works both ways. I've had some experience with intelligent people trying their best to convert me to homeopathy and to astrology - in vain - and in both cases there's a family of practices and a hierarchy. The top of the hierarchy has absolute disdain for those at the bottom. Newspapers are at the bottom. Any serious astrologist will regard the stuff in newspapers as bollocks. At the same time the serious astrologist will easily dismiss people who associate newspaper astrology with real astrology because clearly these are people who don't know what they're talking about.

  The 'serious' guys have their own strict procedures that gives it all a more scientific feel. It feels so much better if you start with actual calculations from the ephemerides. I've known a physicist who strongly believed in astrology.

The serious homeopathy of course works with absurd dilutions prepared following strict procedures.
The homeopaths attract many well educated medical practitioners who use complex anamnesis/diagnostics routines close to the procedures used in allopathy. There's a lot of mouth to mouth reputation building causing people to distinguish between the crackpots and the serious homeopaths. Again, and even more than with astrology, this is not just a playground for the intellectually challenged..

There's one thing to take away from all this, and that's that once you allow yourself to be submersed in pseudosciences, it'll turn out to be a lot more convincing than you expected. I wouldn't trust too many people to be up to it. A lot less than the 42% in the article (100% - 58% of the 18-24 year old in this case). More like less than 10%.

I've done it a few times. I'm really tough :)

Semantics. It hasn't broken down enough to justify going all out.

If at some point we have a situation that the five mainstream papers that wikileaks has worked with all destroy the data, and no other organisation wants to touch it, then you have a breakdown of the system and you can start thinking about releasing the material after vetting it yourself.