Journalist Glenn Greenwald Suggests He Is Likely to Return to US to Accept Polk Award. David Miranda (left) and Glenn Greenwald (right) (Creative Commons-licensed photo by Senadora Vanessa) Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who won a prestigious award for reporting on National Security Agency documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, says he will return to the United States to accept the award in April. (Washington Post journalist Barton Gellman, who received documents from Snowden, won an award as well.) Greenwald, along with Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, won a George Polk Award for National Security Reporting for “investigative stories based on top-secret documents disclosed by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.”
“The reporters conferred with Snowden to negotiate release of the material and then used their extensive backgrounds covering national security to explore the purloined files,” according to the awards announcement. The Polk awards are scheduled to be presented at a luncheon on April 11. It is unclear what Greenwald means by “we.”
Greenwald Will Return to US to 'Force Issue' of Press Freedom. Glenn Greenwald (Photo: Kin Cheung/Associated Press) Journalist Glenn Greenwald says he plans to brave government threats and intimidation and return to the United States to "force the issue" of press freedom. In an exclusive interview with Salon reporter Brian Beutler published Thursday, Greenwald said he'll return "as soon as [his] schedule permits and there’s a reason to do so.” He stated, “I’m going to go back to the U.S. for many reasons, but just the fucking principle is enough … On principle I’m going to force the issue.”
Greenwald says he plans to take this stand despite what he perceives as the growing risk of detention at the hands of the U.S. that he and his reporting partner Laura Poitras face—indicated by increasingly inflamed rhetoric of U.S. officials. Greenwald says they are being singled out despite the fact that NSA documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden have been broadly reported in mainstream media outlets. Glenn Greenwald: "Dianne Feinstein is Outright Lying" about NSA Surveillance Abuses. The NSA debate is as much about journalism as surveillance | Glenn Greenwald. In late June, the economist Dean Baker astutely observed that our NSA reporting was "doing as much to expose corrupt journalism as to expose government spying. " Indeed, from the earliest stages of this reporting, back in Hong Kong, we expected (and hoped) that the reporting we were about to do would expose conflicts in how journalism is understood and practiced as much as it would shine light on the NSA's specific surveillance programs.
That, I think, has clearly been the case. The debates over the proper relationship between journalists and governments have been as illuminating and significant as the debates over government spying and secrecy. Last night on BBC's Newsnight, I was interviewed for 14 minutes by host Kirsty Wark. Greenwald: Low-level staff have access to ‘invasive’ surveillance. Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who has worked with Edward Snowden to reveal sensitive national security information, said Sunday that low-level National Security Agency staff and contractors have access to a powerful and invasive tool that can provide them the e-mails and phone calls of basically anybody -- up to and including the president.
Glenn Greenwald (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) "The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and e-mails in their databases that they’ve collected over the last several years,” Greenwald said on ABC's "This Week. " He then detailed the program, which he said only require an e-mail or an IP address to return data on Americans. " (Full coverage: NSA Secrets) Greenwald, who is set to testify on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, suggested intelligence officials are lying when they say low-level staff have no such access to that information. “It’s an incredibly powerful and invasive tool -- exactly of the type that Mr. Could Sen. “In fact, we don’t monitor e-mails.
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald. The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of just how vast and invasive these surveillance activities are. Over the past couple days, cable news tabloid shows such as CNN's Out Front with Erin Burnett have been excitingly focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could: Shameful: Other Journalists Now A Part Of Ridiculous Smear Campaign Against Glenn Greenwald. GLENN GREENWALD Smear Name NSA Won't Stop Me. When I made the choice to report aggressively on top-secret NSA programs, I knew that I would inevitably be the target of all sorts of personal attacks and smears. You don't challenge the most powerful state on earth and expect to do so without being attacked. As a superb Guardian editorial noted today: "Those who leak official information will often be denounced, prosecuted or smeared.
The more serious the leak, the fiercer the pursuit and the greater the punishment. " One of the greatest honors I've had in my years of writing about politics is the opportunity to work with and befriend my long-time political hero, Daniel Ellsberg. I never quite understood why the Nixon administration, in response to his release of the Pentagon Papers, would want to break into the office of Ellsberg's psychoanalyst and steal his files. So I've been fully expecting those kinds of attacks since I began my work on these NSA leaks. Meet the Press host: ‘Why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?’
Glenn Greenwald is "Aiding and Abetting" Democracy. Imagine if the Sunday morning talk shows had existed in 1776. Surely, they would have welcomed the most widely-read and provocative journalist of that historic year. Perhaps the hosts would have asked Tom Paine if he felt that, by penning articles calling out the hypocrisy of colonial officials – and incendiary pamphlets such as “Common Sense” – he was “aiding and abetting” the revolutionaries that King George III imagined to be “traitors.” An intimidating question, to be sure. Too intimidating, determined the founders of the American experiment. After Paine’s compatriots prevailed in their revolutionary endeavor, they wrote into the Bill of Rights a protection of the ability of a free press to speak truth to power, to call out and challenge the machinations of those in government. Unfortunately, this history is sometimes lost on contemporary Washington. NBC's David Gregory initially asked Greenwald to discuss the whereabouts of Edward Snowden, a source of the leaks.
. © 2013 The Nation. Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes "False" Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AARON MATÉ: We turn now to the latest news in the NSA surveillance scandal. On Monday, both President Obama and whistleblower Edward Snowden gave extensive interviews on the surveillance programs Snowden exposed and Obama is now being forced to defend. Speaking to Charlie Rose on PBS, Obama drew a line between his surveillance efforts and those of the Bush administration. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails.
CHARLIE ROSE: And have not. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: And have not. AARON MATÉ: Obama’s comments came as new poll numbers showed his approval rating has dipped 8 percent since the NSA disclosures emerged nearly two weeks ago. AMY GOODMAN: Well, after going public as the source behind the NSA disclosures just over a week ago, Edward Snowden remerged on Monday after several days of quiet.
REP. Edward Snowden Q and A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions | World news. Best of Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty | Comment is free. Rep. Peter King Lies About Glenn Greenwald, Uses Those Lies To Say Greenwald Should Be Arrested & Prosecuted. We already mentioned how terrorist supporter Rep.
Pete King has said that journalists reporting on government leaks exposing blatant abuse of power should be prosecuted, and rather than admit that he misspoke, he appears to be doubling down... by flat out lying. He went on Fox News to specifically call out Glenn Greenwald and claim that legal action should be taken against him, mainly based on the entirely false claim that Greenwald is threatening to reveal the names of CIA agents and assets. The problem is this is not true. Greenwald has made no such threats or even suggested anything like that. But King bases his entire attack on Greenwald on these false claims.
According to the summary at TPM: "I'm talking about Greenwald. Later on in the interview, King is asked about whether Greenwald's existing leaks should lead to prosecution, and King says yes, that this is clearly being done to "hurt Americans. " Fox News: Well, Glenn Greenwald will say he's trying to help America. Hmm. Greenwald’s long battle against the surveillance state. The series of revelations last week that the National Security Agency (NSA) was daily hoarding data on every phone and online communication inside and coming from the U.S. were the finest examples of Glenn Greenwald’s bold journalistic work in shining light on the troubling operations of government. Greenwald’s illuminations on the surveillance state are not new, however. Throughout his career and time at Salon, he argued against the expanding surveillance dragnet, the government agencies, private contractors and political ideologies upholding it.
During a speech at the Socialism 2012 conference, Greenwald called the creeping surveillance state — with the expansive NSA hoarding complex at its center — an impediment to any efforts to meaningfully challenge the political status quo: At the time, Church also said: “I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. NYT Gives Damning-With-Faintest-Praise-Possible Profile of Glenn Greenwald After Surveillance Scoops. The Grey Lady roused itself to profile Glenn Greenwald after his blockbuster stories of the last two days: the first on a secret court order now in effect for Verizon to provide the NSA on all telephone records in its systems, the second on the PRISM program, which has given the NSA direct access to servers of information giants including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, since 2007.
But the piece is mean-spirited, underplaying Greenwald’s credentials and coming too close for comfort to character sniping. Start with first impressions: the headline, the opening paragraph, and the picture: “Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate“: After writing intensely, even obsessively, for years about government surveillance and the prosecution of journalists, Glenn Greenwald has suddenly put himself directly at the intersection of those two issues, and perhaps in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors. So where do we start with this? Mr. Mr. Ah, the British “unsound” treatment. Sunday Shows meet Glenn Greenwald! Welcome to your recap of this week’s “Sunday shows,” where the hot topic is how the government has access to everyone’s phone and Facebook and video sex chats all the time, EVERYONE FREAK OUT, NOW.
We’ll be watching ABC’s “This Week,” NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’ “Face the Nation,” and yes, in that priority order. “This Week” promises to be a grand old time, as some producer has let civil liberties reporter and commentator Glenn”zilla” Greenwald on national television again to scorch the earth. Greenwald, of course, has been the lead reporter behind a number of top-secret leak reports this week. “You are really on a roll,” George Stephanopoulos congratulates Greenwald, of “the Guardian newspaper.”
(Full disclosure: I am a contributor to the Guardian U.S.) What are the key findings of your stories this week? But, Mr. Stephanopoulos pushes Greenwald on whether the government has “direct access” to these tech companies’ servers, as he and the Washington Post originally reported. SEN. On Whistleblowers and Government Threats of Investigation. James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, who called the Guardian's revelations 'reprehensible'. (Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA) We followed Wednesday's story about the NSA's bulk telephone record-gathering with one yesterday about the agency's direct access to the servers of the world's largest internet companies.
I don't have time at the moment to address all of the fallout because - to borrow someone else's phrase - I'm Looking Forward to future revelations that are coming (and coming shortly), not Looking Backward to ones that have already come. "The people who do [create accountability for those in power]are heroes. They are the embodiment of heroism. They do it knowing exactly what is likely to be done to them by the planet's most powerful government, but they do it regardless. " But I do want to make two points. They could easily enrich themselves by selling those documents for huge sums of money to foreign intelligence services. That isn't going to work. Obama DOJ Formally Accuses Journalist in Leak Case of Committing Crimes. It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined - in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions.
But as last week's controversy over the DOJ's pursuit of the phone records of AP reporters illustrated, this obsessive fixation in defense of secrecy also targets, and severely damages, journalists specifically and the newsgathering process in general. Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen had his emails read by the Obama DOJ, which accused him of being a co-conspirator in a criminal leak case. (Photo: screen grab) New revelations emerged yesterday in the Washington Post that are perhaps the most extreme yet when it comes to the DOJ's attacks on press freedoms. The focus of the Post's report yesterday is that the DOJ's surveillance of Rosen, the reporter, extended far beyond even what they did to AP reporters.
Lizza added: © 2013 Guardian News and Media. Israeli Bombing of Syria and Moral Relativism. On Sunday, Israel dropped massive bombs near Damascus, ones which the New York Times, quoting residents, originally reported (then evidently deleted) resulted in explosions "more massive than anything the residents of the city. . . have witnessed during more than two years of war. " The Jerusalem Post this morning quoted "a senior Syrian military source" as claiming that "Israel used depleted uranium shells", though that is not confirmed.
The NYT cited a "high-ranking Syrian military official" who said the bombs "struck several critical military facilities in some of the country's most tightly secured and strategic areas" and killed "dozens of elite troops stationed near the presidential palace", while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that "at least 42 soldiers were killed in the strikes, and another 100 who would usually be at the targeted sites remain unaccounted for.
" Here's a similar question: © 2013 Guardian/UK. Three Democratic Myths Used to Demean the Paul Filibuster. Supreme Court shields warrantless eavesdropping law from constitutional challenge | Glenn Greenwald. The 'Both-Sides-Are-Awful' Dismissal of Gaza Ignores the Key Role of the US Government.
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