We traveled to Rio de Janeiro to meet the man who broke the biggest news story of 2013. Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist and author who's best known for reporting on the leaks of classified National Security Agency documents by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Before he was a journalist, Greenwald was a constitutional law and civil rights litigator, and until 2012 he was a contributing writer at Salon. He has authored four books: How Would a Patriot Act, Tragic Legacy, Great American Hypocrites, and With Liberty and Justice for Some. For 14 months Greenwald was a columnist at the Guardian, where he broke the first NSA story in June of 2013. He has since left the newspaper to team up with filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Jeremy Scahill to start a new media venture, First Look Media, backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
12 Comments
radx*promote
siftbotPromoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, January 17th, 2014 10:09am PST - promote requested by radx.
ambassdorweird, didn't know he was gay from hearing him on other shows, then as soon as this video basically says he's gay at the beginning, I just think "wow, he does sound 'gay'!" - don't mean that in a homophobic way ...
SagemindQuestion?
Is it still illegal in any way to report that the government is doing something illegal?
deathcowpftfttttt
no segways and no GTA5... what a shitty interview
MrFiskTwo of my favorite sources of *news.
siftbotAdding video to channels (News) - requested by MrFisk.
YogiIt isn't but they always try to do something. Interestingly in America the press are pretty much immune to the bullshit Glenn and his colleagues have had to go through. Example, the Guardian was visited by I wanna say MI5, some british cunts. Anyways they came in and told them to destroy everything they had from Snowden, and watched them do it too. They took grinders and magnets or whatever to the computers destroying their harddrives with all the information. Information that is in the Guardians places in America, it's just sitting in New York. The brits ain't care, they want that stuff to be stopped too and they asked Obama I'm sure but in America we fought for that shit and they leave the press pretty much alone.
The British cunts have done this before too, they of course held Glenns partner at the airport and confiscated his many electronical things just being dicks. The BBC has itself been raided before by the Rozzers (???) for some stupid shit.
Look I hate on America a LOT, there's tons of shit I don't like that this country does but we seem to have gotten Press Freedom right. That wasn't an accident that was fucking fought for Hard and Long. Now the press and it's ideological and indoctrination bullshit is another story. But whenever there's been leakers in this country they've had a paper or some news outlet they could go to and those news places would tell the story. They LOVE looking like they're left wing but they don't really do any of the day to day real shit, because they're funded by corporations.
Question?
Is it still illegal in any way to report that the government is doing something illegal?
RedSky*promote
siftbotPromoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, January 17th, 2014 10:09am PST - promote requested by RedSky.
griefer_queafer*quality
siftbotBoosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by griefer_queafer.
Discuss...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.