{"id":1208889,"date":"2022-01-11T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208889"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:26","slug":"marc-ambinder-the-edward-snowden-of-underachieving-click-whores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marc-ambinder-the-edward-snowden-of-underachieving-click-whores\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Ambinder: The Edward Snowden of Underachieving Click Whores"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarc-ambinder-the-edward-snowden-of-underachieving-click-whores%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ambinder-main.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Say what you will about Edward Snowden\u2014treasonous scumbag, Putin&#8217;s puppet, commie douche\u2014at least he had the courage of his convictions. He hated America so much he was willing to spend the rest of his life in a shithole country (Russia) that&#8217;s cold and miserable all the time. He betrayed his country because he believed in something, whatever that may be. He wasn&#8217;t <em>just<\/em> doing it for the clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Ambinder is Edward Snowden without the conviction. The so-called journalist recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcambinder\/status\/1480610095444606978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> &#8220;The Secrets Machine,&#8221; a paid subscription service for &#8220;researchers&#8221; and other &#8220;curious&#8221; folks interested in classified information about U.S. military tactics, techniques, and procedures. The newsblog, published on Substack, will be &#8220;free for a bit&#8221; but will soon begin charging subscribers for access to &#8220;premium content, like lists, research, and documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One month earlier, Ambinder was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/vp-kamala-harris-rejection-bluetooth-devices-isn-t-paranoia-it-n1285631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praising<\/a> Vice President Kamala Harris for following the FBI&#8217;s advice and avoiding Bluetooth wireless devices.&nbsp;&#8220;It is refreshing to see a vice president who takes seriously her obligation to protect sensitive and classified information,&#8221; he wrote in an opinion column for MSNBC. It would appear his position on whether such information deserves protection is somewhat flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Ambinder, who is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2010\/05\/beating-obesity\/308017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing some weight<\/a>, has teamed up with&nbsp;William Arkin,&nbsp;a former <em>Washington Post<\/em> blogger best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-perils-of-handling-virtual-live-ammo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> American soldiers &#8220;mercenaries&#8221; during some of the worst fighting of the Iraq war. They plan to sell access to more than 20,000 &#8220;secrets&#8221; about the U.S. government. <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re curious what&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@warkin<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;and I are up to, subscribe. If you&#8217;re worried about what secrets might be revealed\u2026 don&#8217;t be. (Subscribe, too!)&#8221; Ambinder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcambinder\/status\/1480611060528738305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, the popular social networking website, after introducing the duo&#8217;s first blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretsmachine.com\/p\/the-most-secret-army-within-the-army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> about something called the&nbsp;1st Capabilities Integration Group (Airborne).<\/p>\n<p>Even for Substack, it&#8217;s some of the most tedious content I&#8217;ve ever encountered. Almost <em>too<\/em> tedious, as if they want to discourage anyone who&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> a foreign intelligence officer from becoming a paid subscriber. Ambinder&#8217;s bombshell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcambinder\/status\/1480716414415564803?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> about the 1st CIG&#8217;s &#8220;footprint&#8221; and &#8220;inventory,&#8221; for example, received a single &#8220;\u2018like&#8221; from an anonymous account, probably because it&#8217;s not very interesting.&nbsp;&#8220;The unit is made up of four battalions (the 1st through 4th), various mission support units, a cyber operations squadron, and a \u2018technology operations squadron,'&#8221; the bloggers blogged, boringly.<\/p>\n<p>I kept reading in the hope of learning something useful about a previously undiscovered torture method or Joe Biden&#8217;s unfortunate habit of murdering civilians&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/oops-bidens-righteous-strike-in-kabul-now-a-tragic-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with drones<\/a>. Nothing. Just some half-assed drivel for nerds, without the ideological fervor of a Snowden or Kaczynski. On the contrary, it would seem that Ambinder is just another cat person in Los Angeles trying to become an influencer.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Americans are created equal. Some have the courage to stand up and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2021-man-of-the-year-the-american-troops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serve a cause<\/a> greater than themselves. They put on the uniform, pick up a gun, and run toward the fight. People like Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest American veteran of the Second World War, who <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jan\/05\/oldest-second-world-war-veteran-us-dies-lawrence-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> last week at the age of 112. People like <em>Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/rittenhouse-acquitted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then you have people like Marc Ambinder, who aid and abet the leaking of classified&nbsp;information to America&#8217;s nuclear-armed and increasingly belligerent adversaries at a time when our doddering commander in chief can barely wipe his own ass without Ron Klain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2021-man-of-the-year-ron-klain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shame!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Edward Snowden\u2014treasonous scumbag, Putin&#8217;s puppet, commie douche\u2014at least he had the courage of his convictions. 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