"Note how a country's human rights problems becomes of interest to the US political and media class only when that country defies the US"

I am glad Greenwald has cottoned on to this and also made pointed remarks on the use of the abuses of others to question the ethics of Assange and Snowden in their "choice" of destination. It's reminiscent of the cold war retort from the soviets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes