Greenwald posts scathing article on Biden, media that led to his resignation from The Intercept

Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of the independent media organization The Intercept, has published the scathing article that The Intercept refused to run and for which Greenwald resigned as a result. 

He posted it on his blogsite, and The Daily Mail has posted the entire, roughly 5,000-word story. Greenwald pulls no punches in his critique of the media, or of the actions of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden:

“Publication by the New York Post two weeks ago of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop, relating to [former] Vice President Joe Biden's work in Ukraine, and subsequent articles from other outlets concerning the Biden family's pursuit of business opportunities in China, provoked extraordinary efforts by a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories."

Greenwald continues: "One outcome is that the Biden campaign concluded, rationally, that there is no need for the front-running presidential candidate to address even the most basic and relevant questions raised by these materials. Rather than condemn Biden for ignoring these questions – the natural instinct of a healthy press when it comes to a presidential election – journalists have instead led the way in concocting excuses to justify his silence.”

Greenwald cites all of the corroboration for what was found on the laptop, the lack of any specific denial by Joe Biden or his campaign that the texts, emails, or claims by involved witnesses are all real, and not Russian disinformation as his campaign, members of the Intelligence Community, and many in the media have claimed, despite no evidence to support that notion. 

“Worse is the 'disinformation' part of the media's equation,” writes Greenwald. “How can these materials constitute 'disinformation' if they are authentic emails and texts actually sent to and from Hunter Biden? The ease with which news outlets that are supposed to be skeptical of evidence-free pronouncements by the intelligence community instead printed their assertions about 'Russian disinformation' is alarming in the extreme.”

Greenwald also says this “newly revealed information suggests Biden was using his power to benefit his son's business Ukrainian associates, and allowing his name to be traded on while Vice President for his son and brother to pursue business opportunities in China. These are questions which a minimally healthy press would want answered, not buried – regardless of how many similar or worse scandals the Trump family has.”

Greenwald singles out Lesley Stahl, Christiane Amanpour and NPR for their egregious attempts at denying the significance of the story, or claiming that it was “unverified.” 

"A media outlet that renounces its core function – pursuing answers to relevant questions about powerful people – is one that deserves to lose the public's faith and confidence. And that is exactly what the U.S. media, with some exceptions, attempted to do with this story: they took the lead not in investigating these documents but in concocting excuses for why they should be ignored."