Glenn Greenwald

Snowden: Everyone Is Under Surveillance Now

May 4, 2014 Staff, www.AP.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

The US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance. “It's no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said. “It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love.” Snowden made his comments in a short video that was played before a debate on the proposition that surveillance today is a euphemism for mass surveillance, in Toronto, Canada. The former US National Security Agency contractor is living in Russia, having been granted temporary asylum there in June 2013. Before the debates began, 33% of the audience voted in favour of the debate statement and 46% voted against. It closed with 59% of the audience siding with Greenwald and Ohanian.

Snowden Statement On Pulitzer: ‘A Vindication’

April 15, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

Snowden: Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognises was work of vital public importance. This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. My efforts would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers, and they have my gratitude and respect for their extraordinary service to our society. Their work has given us a better future and a more accountable democracy.

Greenwald And Poitras Return To US, Not Arrested, Receive Journalism Award

April 12, 2014 Ravi Somaiya and Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com Resist! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

The journalists had been threatened, cajoled and condemned by the British and American governments. Their work together had set off a hunt for their source and a debate on both sides of the Atlantic about government surveillance. Glenn Greenwald, the journalist, lawyer and civil liberties crusader, and Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian newspaper, finally shook hands after months of working remotely on articles based on material from the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. The two were in New York for the prestigious Polk Award presented to Mr. Greenwald and his colleagues, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, and the Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, for national security reporting. Mr. Greenwald and Ms. Poitras returned to the United States for the first time since their articles broke in June. They arrived at Kennedy Airport in New York from Berlin, where Mr. Greenwald had given a speech on Thursday and where Ms. Poitras lives and is making a documentary on surveillance.

Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras Returning To U.S. On Friday

April 10, 2014 Michael Calderone, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists whohave been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, will return to the United States on Friday for the first time since revelations of worldwide surveillance broke. Greenwald and Poitras, currently in Berlin, will attend Friday’s Polk Awards ceremony in New York City. The two journalists are sharing the prestigious journalism award with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and with Barton Gellman, who has led The Washington Post’s reporting on the NSA documents. Greenwald and Poitras interviewed Snowden last June in Hong Kong as he first revealed himself. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Greenwald said he’s motivated to return because “certain factions in the U.S. government have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists.” “It’s just the principle that I shouldn’t allow those tactics to stop me from returning to my own country,” Greenwald said.

Greenwald, Snowden Joint Address On Surveillance

April 7, 2014 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Surveillance

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald made a joint appearance on Saturday in which they discussed how the "products of surveillance" include accumulation of metadata as well as drone strikes. The two were speaking via separate video streams at a session of Amnesty International USA's annual human rights conference taking place at a hotel in downtown Chicago. According to Reuters' reporting on the event, Snowden and Greenwald cautioned that government monitoring of "metadata" is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails and stressed the importance of a free press willing to scrutinize government activity. [..] "Metadata is what allows an actual enumerated understanding, a precise record of all the private activities in all of our lives. It shows our associations, our political affiliations and our actual activities," said Snowden [...]

NSA Blows Its Own Top Secret Program In Order To Propagandize

April 1, 2014 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! Glenn Greenwald, NSA

Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because of these leakers and the journalists who publish their disclosures! Lest you think that’s hyperbole, consider this headline from last week based on an interview with outgoing NSA chief Keith Alexander: "NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander says future Snowden leaks could lead to deaths." The NSA engages in this fear-mongering not only publicly but also privately. As part of its efforts to persuade news organizations not to publish newsworthy stories from Snowden materials, its representatives constantly say the same thing: If you publish what we’re doing, it will endanger lives, including NSA personnel, by making people angry about what we’re doing in their countries and want to attack us.

The Time For Obama To Pardon Snowden Is Now

March 26, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Resistance Report, Snowden leaks, Snowden pardon, The Intercept, Wikileaks

Now that President Obama is proposing that the NSA end its bulk collection of data, it is time that Obama take this narrative to the next logical conclusion and offer a full and unconditional pardon to Edward Snowden. President Obama’s War on whistle blowers (he has charged eight individuals with Espionage, compared to only three under all previous presidents) needs to end. His recent proposal, even though it was forced by the courts, and to a large degree Mark Zuckerberg and the other titans of the tech world who warned that the U.S. government spying programs would hurt business, is still an admission that Edward Snowden’s actions were justified.

Julian Assange Rails Against NSA surveillance, Preparing New WikiLeaks Release

March 9, 2014 Martin Bryant, www.thenextweb.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, NSA

Indeed, Assange said a new WikiLeaks release of “important” material was in the works although he didn’t want to offer a timeframe for its publication as he didn’t want to tip-off “alleged perpetrators.” He criticized the standard journalistic practice of approaching subjects of stories for comment ahead of publication, as it simply gave them time to spin acounter-argument to the allegations. While this may annoy many journalists, it will come as no surprise to anyone who followed the unredacted release of the US diplomatic cables in 2010 and 2011. While the content of the session wasn’t Earth-shattering, it amused us to note the irony that Assange was criticizing NSA surveillance while his head was being displayed next to a Skype logo.

The Moazzam Begg Arrest: Criminalizing Muslim Political Dissent

March 8, 2014 Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain www.firstlook.org Educate! Dissent, Glenn Greenwald

This explanation is all the more credible given the exploitation of terrorism charges by both the U.S. and UK governments throughout the post-9/11 era. There has been a consistent attempt by government authorities to stifle political activism among those criticizing civil rights abuses as well as foreign military expansionism. Predominantly, the brunt of this suppression has focused on Muslim minority communities in the West. The No Separate Justice campaign, along with the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, have documented numerous cases of Muslim political activists who have been arrested and detained for their public criticisms of the conduct of the War on Terror — usually under the guise of highly-tendentious terrorism charges. Individuals such as Tarek Mehanna, Fahad Hashmi, Jubair Ahmad, Emerson Winfield Begolly, and others have come to the attention of authorities for their highly public expressions of dissent, charged with terrorism, and then handed long prison sentences under extreme circumstances of incarceration rivaling those at Guantanamo.

Paragraphs About The NSA Began To Self Delete

February 25, 2014 Luke Harding www.theguardian.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA

Over the next few weeks these incidents of remote deletion happened several times. There was no fixed pattern but it tended to occur when I wrote disparagingly of the NSA. All authors expect criticism. But criticismbefore publication by an anonymous, divine third party is something novel. I began to leave notes for my secret reader. I tried to be polite, but irritation crept in. Once I wrote: "Good morning. I don't mind you reading my manuscript – you're doing so already – but I'd be grateful if you don't delete it. Thank you." There was no reply. A month later the mysterious reader – him, her, they? – abruptly disappeared. At a literary event in Berlin my Guardian colleague David Leigh told a journalist about my unusual computer experiences; he led with the anecdote in a piece for the leftwing daily Taz. After that, nothing. I finished The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man in December.

British Government Interferes With Press Freedom to Detain David Miranda

February 19, 2014 Ryan Devereaux www.firstlook.org Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Government, NSA, Terrorism

The government argued that it had to intercept the material Miranda was suspected of carrying, lest it fall into the wrong hands. Miranda’s attorneys, meanwhile, said that if the government wanted the Snowden documents, it should have put in an application to a judge prior to the stop. Attorney Mathew Ryder said the government was appealing to “doomsday scenarios” rather than responsibly considering whether the terrorism act had been proportionately applied. Tuesday’s decision found the judges on the side of the government. Lord Justice Laws, with whom the two other judges concurred, wrote that it was clear the authorities stopped Miranda to “ascertain the nature of the material he was carrying.” He added that schedule 7 was “capable of covering the publication or threatened publication … of stolen classified information which, if published, would reveal personal details of members of the armed forces or security and intelligence agencies, thereby endangering their lives.”

NSA Documents Show How Wikileaks & Allies Were Targeted

February 18, 2014 Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher www.firstlook.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, NSA, Wikileaks

One classified document from Government Communications Headquarters, Britain’s top spy agency, shows that GCHQ used its surveillance system to secretly monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site. By exploiting its ability to tap into the fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone of the Internet, the agency confided to allies in 2012, it was able to collect the IP addresses of visitors in real time, as well as the search terms that visitors used to reach the site from search engines like Google. Another classified document from the U.S. intelligence community, dated August 2010, recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Assange over the group’s publication of the Afghanistan war logs. A third document, from July 2011, contains a summary of an internal discussion in which officials from two NSA offices – including the agency’s general counsel and an arm of its Threat Operations Center – considered designating WikiLeaks as “a ‘malicious foreign actor’ for the purpose of targeting.” Such a designation would have allowed the group to be targeted with extensive electronic surveillance – without the need to exclude U.S. persons from the surveillance searches.

Greenwald On Snowden Asylum In Brazil, First Look Media

February 1, 2014 Caue Marques, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Brazil, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

Journalist Glenn Greenwald believes the Brazilian government should offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA analyst currently taking refuge in Russia. In an interview with the Brasil Post, the American reporter discussed what the future should hold for Snowden, his main source of information. Snowden leaked documents revealing the espionage programs of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), which led to a worldwide backlash over invasions of privacy. Greenwald also praised the way the Brazilian government has dealt with the U.S. following allegations of espionage. "Brazil is doing the right thing insisting on wanting to know what the U.S. has done against the government and businesses here," he said.

Greenwald On ‘First Look;’ How Funding Will Liberate Independent Media

January 6, 2014 Glenn Greenwald, utdocuments.blogspot.com.br Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

Greenwald: For me, "activism" is about effects and outcomes. Successful activism means successful outcomes, and that in turn takes resources. It's very easy to maintain a perception of purity by remaining resource-starved and thus unable to really challenge large institutions in a comprehensive and sustained way. I know there are some people on the left who are so suspicious of anyone who is called "billionaire" that they think you're fully and instantly guilty by virtue of any association with such a person. But I view it differently: I see resources as a thing needed to be exploited for a successful outcome, to effectively vindicate the political and journalistic values I believe in. And I've seen - particularly over the last six months - how vital serious resources are to doing something like this aggressively and without fear, and not allowing institutional constraints to impede what you want to do. At the end of the day, the choice we're making is to make our form of journalism as potent and effective as it can be.

Greenwald: US, British Media Are Servants Of Security Apparatus

December 28, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA, Video

Journalist Glenn Greenwald condemned the mainstream media during an address at a German computer conference on Friday and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe. Thousands of attendees at the thirtieth annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg packed into a room to watch the 46-year-old lawyer-turned-columnist present a keynote address delivered less than seven months after he started working with former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Revelations contained in leaked documents supplied by Snowden to Greenwald and other journalists have sparked international outrage and efforts to reform the far-reaching surveillance operations waged by the NSA and intelligence officials in allied nations. But speaking remotely from Brazil this week, Greenwald argued that the media establishment at large is guilty of failing significantly with respect to accomplishing its most crucial role: keeping governments in check.

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