PORN SPY - What else can they call Glenn Greenwald now?

Greenwald just gave the CBC the news story of the year!

Two News Sources here:

RT
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Headline:

Snowden confidant Glenn Greenwald a ‘porn spy,’ says Canadian politician

Toronto Star
(Link temporarily not working now)

Heather Mallick for The Toronto Star, February 1, 2014

SNIP-SNIP - (Excerpts less than 50%)

The huge and precious flow of public information via Edward Snowden on government spying has gone over a Niagara-sized waterfall and, yes, it’s on the Canadian side. A secret report obtained by the CBC has revealed that Ottawa used airport Wi-Fi to spy on Canadian travellers...

The news is the first time that the extent of electronic spying has become something Canadians can take personally, so to speak....

...Everyone has gone to the airport...

The report by the CBC’s Greg Weston is astonishing. For two weeks, as a 2012 tryout, the government tracked travellers as they went to an unnamed Canadian international airport and used its free Wi-Fi on devices like phones, tablets and laptops. From then on, they were trapped...

They were followed to every Wi-Fi hot spot they visited for a week, whether it was other airports, restaurants, stores, anywhere. What’s worse, the data tracking was so efficient that it could go back in time and track the travellers in the days before they even showed up at the airport...

...it was in our pocket and purse, it followed us on vacation, it went to the car rental and the gas station washroom with us.

.. Illegal, the CBC said, because the Canadian surveillance agency is supposed to track intelligence only on foreigners. It is prohibited from tracking Canadians or anyone in Canada without a warrant...

The Tories lashed out at both Greenwald and the CBC, with Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary, the complicated and irascible Paul Calandra, asking,

“Why is furthering porn-spy Glenn Greenwald’s agenda and lining his Brazilian bank account more important than maintaining the public broadcaster’s journalistic integrity?”

I don’t know what it means either.

(Explanation suggested by RT:

"The secretary's comment on the “Brazilian bank account” appeared to be a reference to Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, who put up $50 million into a new media venture he is setting up with Greenwald. However, what Calandra was referring to in his comment about Greenwald being a “porn spy” is less clear.

"The only connection to porn in this ongoing saga seems to be connected to the NSA’s alleged gathering of online visits to pornography websites, aimed specifically at Muslims, whom the agency was seeking to discredit due to their “radicalizing” efforts."

SO AS USUAL, THE GOVERNMENT SMEARS THE MESSENGER, RATHER THAN ANSWERING TO THE CHARGES.

Concluding quote:

Canada is turning into an East Germany, minus neighbours and families snooping on each other. But note that in the modern age, they don’t need to — your cellphone does it all for you. Spying is in the air we breathe.