There's a lot of speculation in this piece. However, Greenwald turning state secrets in to proprietary, for profit information is worth criticism.By Greenwald’s reasoning, even though Omidyar is the founder, largest shareholder, and chairman of the body responsible for eBay/PayPal management oversight, he had “nothing to do with” its policy towards Wikileaks. Zero. None. He was as helpless as you, me, Batkid, or Grumpy Cat.
-I work for a fortune 50 company and I can say that a decision like this isn't something that automatically gets put in front of the board. It's an operational decision (albeit a large one) that likely falls to the CEO. Given the amount of volume/revenue involved in the decision, it really was a small one from a profitability standpoint. My guess is that they've cut off paypal access to a number of controversial businesses/institutions and that they saw this in the same light. "The most controversial decision they've made" -Hindsight is 20/20. I don't doubt that Omidyar had no idea about this decision prior to it being made.