State department attacks CNN for doing basic journalism | Glenn Greenwald

Obama officials hide behind Ambassador Stevens' family to delegitimize reporting that reflects poorly on them

Three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in Benghazi, Libya, CNN found a seven-page handwritten journal he had written. That journal, found on the floor of what CNN called "the largely unsecured consulate compound where he was fatally wounded", contained obviously newsworthy information: specifically that "in the months leading up to his death, the late ambassador worried a...