Glen Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who brought us the Chelsea Manning, and NSA/Edward Snowden stories resigned today from The Intercept, over being censored by the outlet he founded to combat censorship in journalism…

“ It has been two years since what have turned out to be unsubstantiated accusations were made against Noah Levine. It has been over a year since Spirit Rock Meditation Center chose to place fear of public opinion over fair treatment. It has been ten months since overwhelming evidence against the former RR board's lawsuit forced that board to abandon their campaign against the founder…”

“ But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms…”