Glenn Greenwald is a man who pulls no punches and is a hell of a journalist, if you define journalist as a person who will print anything regardless of the consequences. Hence why he has defended Edward Snowden. Greenwald would have happily printed the plans for the D-Day operation a week before the invasion. He suffers from, to paraphrase Churchill, an inability to distinguish between the fire and the fire department.

But, his devil may care attitude sometimes cuts the right way, sort of. So it does now in his debate with Ilhan Omar about communist Obama era CIA Director John Brennan. He was a communist, you say? Ridiculous. What’s the proof? Well, John Brennan admitted to voting for Communist Party candidate for president Gus Hall in 1976 at the height of the Cold War. When asked later to repudiate his vote Brennan refused. Yes, this is the kind of man who ran our nation’s most important intelligence agency during the Obama-Biden administration. God knows what kind of damage he did to this country and how much classified data he passed on to our adversaries.

FNC: “Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday and journalist Glenn Greenwald traded barbs on Twitter after Greenwald said Omar defended former CIA Director John Brennan and the Logan Act. It started when Omar responded to a tweet from Greenwald saying the FBI should investigate Brennan for Logan Act violations. Brennan had condemned the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as ‘criminal’ and ‘highly reckless’ in a Friday tweet. The law punishes individuals involved in foreign government affairs without permission and is often cited in relation to the 2017 Russia Investigation. Greenwald argued on Twitter that the law is ‘about undermining current U.S. foreign policy.’ ”

It is interesting that Brennan used the term “criminal.” That shows without doubt where the loyalties of the Obama-Biden administration were, with the murderous Islamist terrorists of the Iranian theocracy. Of course Brennan condemned it. His status as a lifelong enemy of this nation compelled him to do just that.

Omar responded, Brennan’s tweet “wouldn’t constitute a violation of the Logan Act” because it was a “one-sided communication and even if directed at a foreign power, seems to fall outside the statute’s scope.” Actually, she’s probably right.

Greenwald retorted, “Two things I never though[t] I’d see: 1) @IlhanMN defending John Brennan, who bombed and killed civilians in numerous countries including Somalia, and 2) @IlhanMN defending an old, repressive law designed to criminalize dissent from US Foreign Policy…The principal argument against the Logan Act for decades is that it’s so vague nobody knows what it includes, leaving it to FBI to unilaterally threaten dissidents. You claimed it has clear definitional contours & know what it encompasses. That’s a defense,” he tweeted.

Well perhaps. Greenwald argued that Brennan should be investigated for violating the Logan Act and then trashes the law. Omar defended Brennan, no doubt they are ideological soulmates, and then gets confused by Greenwald’s seeming dichotomy. Either way, it is a reminder that journalists like Greenwald are trying so hard to go after everyone all the time that their own logic gets warped in the process. And as for Omar defending a communist and Brennan siding with America’s enemies? Would you expect anything different?