EXCERPT:
GREENWALD: "When I interviewed Congressman Johnson, I did so in part because he was so — I thought he was one of the top two or three best members of Congress on these issues of free speech and the abuses of U.S. security state, CIA, the FBI, things that are central to our politics. I kind of was amazed that someone like that was even in Congress, someone willing to do all this, and now he's speaker of the House. He wasn’t a member of the House leadership. He was really not — he wasn't a back-bencher exactly, but he was kind of in that mid range of the House Republican caucus, someone who was never talked about to be speaker of the House until about six hours ago, when his name emerged as, you know, seventh candidate and people just kind of — I think he’s inoffensive to most people or to — I mean, to the people who wouldn’t have chosen him, and then the people who wanted to choose him had the advantage that people were ready for this to be over, and now he’s speaker.”