NYT Book Reviewer Wonders If Glenn Greenwald Should Be Locked Up

TPM reports:

If a book critic questions whether the author he's reviewing should be thrown in prison, that's probably a sign the review is going to be negative.

But Michael Kinsley went there on Thursday when he reviewed journalist Glenn Greenwald's book about the National Security Agency spying revelations, "No Place To Hide."

Writing for the New York Times, Kinsley criticized Greenwald for treating the disclosure of the agency's top secret surveillance programs as a "straightforward" issue.

"But it’s not that simple, as Greenwald must know," Kinsley wrote. "There are laws against government eavesdropping on American citizens, and there are laws against leaking official government documents. You can’t just choose the laws you like and ignore the ones you don’t like. Or perhaps you can, but you can’t then claim that it’s all very straightforward."

Check out Glenn Greenwald's response.