Glenn Greenwald

Greenwald Launches “First Look Media”

December 24, 2013 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, is injecting his first $50m into the new journalism venture he is setting up with former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald. The investment represents the first tranche of a total pot of $250m that the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist has promised for the new operation. A statement released from Honolulu on Thursday said that the money was being used to set up offices in New York, San Francisco and Washington. The holding company, which has changed its name from NewCo to First Look Media, seeks to build on Greenwald’s growing following in the wake of his work on the Edward Snowden leaks of National Security Agency documents to generate what it calls “robust coverage of politics, government, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, arts and culture, business, technology, and investigative news”.

Glenn Greenwald Responds to Media Slander and False Accusations

December 1, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, utdocuments.blogspot.com.br Educate! Glenn Greenwald, NSA

I've steadfastly ignored the multiple attacks from this particular writer over the years because his recklessness with the facts is so well-known (ask others about whom he's written), and because his fixation is quite personal: it began with and still is fueled by an incident where The Nation retracted and apologized for an error-strewn hit piece he wrote which I had criticized (see here and here). But now, this week's attack has been seized on by various national security establishment functionaries and DC journalists to impugn our NSA reporting and, in some cases, to argue that this "privatizing" theory should be used as a basis to prosecute me for the journalism I'm doing.

Eric Holder Says He Wouldn’t Prosecute Glenn Greenwald … Sort of

November 18, 2013 Alyssa Figueroa, www.alternet.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Glenn Greenwald, Media, Whistleblowers

In an interview with The Washington Post, Attorney General Eric Holder implied that even though he doesn’t agree with reporter Glenn Greenwald’s actions, he wouldn’t prosecute him. After stating that the Justice Department has not given up its efforts to repatriate Edward Snowden, Holder said that the department is not, however, planning to take action against Greenwald. He said: "Unless information that has not come to my attention is presented to me, what I have indicated in my testimony before Congress is that any journalist who’s engaged in true journalistic activities is not going to be prosecuted by this Justice Department. … I certainly don’t agree with what Greenwald has done. … In some ways, he blurs the line between advocate and journalist. But on the basis of what I know now, I’m not sure there is a basis for prosecution of Greenwald."

UK Equates Journalism With Terrorism In Greenwald Case

November 3, 2013 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

Outrage and denunciations are following reports out of the UK which show that the British government has labeled the husband of journalist Glenn Greenwald a "terrorist" for allegedly possessing leaked NSA documents while passing through London's Heathrow Airport earlier this year. As Reuters reports: At a London court hearing this week for for Miranda's lawsuit, a document called a "Ports Circulation Sheet" was read into the record. It was prepared by Scotland Yard - in consultation with the MI5 counterintelligence agency - and circulated to British border posts before Miranda's arrival. The precise date of the document is unclear. "Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security," according to the document. "We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives," the document continued. "Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism..."

Greenwald: On Leaving The Guardian

November 1, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA

As many of you know, I'm leaving the Guardian in order to work with Pierre Omidyar, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill and soon-to-be-identified others on building a new media organization. As I said when this news was reported a couple of weeks ago, leaving the Guardian was not an easy choice, but this was a dream opportunity that was impossible to decline. In the meantime, I'll continue reporting in partnership with foreign media outlets (stories on mass NSA surveillance in France began last week in Le Monde, and stories on bulk surveillance of Spanish citizens and NSA's cooperation with Spanish intelligence have appeared this week in Spain's El Mundo), as well as in partnership with US outlets. As I did yesterday when responding to NSA claims about these stories, I'll also periodically post on my personal blog – here – with an active comment section, as well as on our pre-launch temporary blog. Until launch of the new media outlet, the best way to learn of new stories, new posts, and other activity is my Twitter feed, @ggreenwald. My new email address and PGP key are here.

Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet To Come

October 19, 2013 Vivienne Walt, www.world,time.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance

Although four months have passed since Edward Snowden’s explosive NSA surveillance leaks, the most revealing details have not yet been published, and could be rolled out in the international media over the coming weeks and months, beginning with U.S. spying activities involving Spain and France. That’s according to Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the Snowden story last June, and whose life has been drastically upturned since. “There are a lot more stories,” he said on Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. “The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish.”

The Extraordinary Promise Of The New Greenwald-Omidyar Venture

October 18, 2013 Ryan Chittum, www.cjr.org Create! Glenn Greenwald, Media

Adversarial muckrakers + civic-minded billionaire = a whole new world. Make no mistake, news that Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to start a new publication funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar is giant news—a bigger deal, in my book, than Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post. This isn’t just another startup. What makes this extraordinary is the combination of muckraking—and, dare I say, dissident—journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill with the gargantuan fortune of one of the first internet billionaires. This is the best news journalism has seen in a long, long time. Here’s hoping this remarkable pairing realizes its full potential.

More Details On The New Greenwald-Omidyar Media Venture

October 16, 2013 Jay Rosen, www.pressthink.org Create! Glenn Greenwald, Media

More information is gradually coming out about the new media venture being created by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and journalist Glenn Greenwald. Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras will be working with Greenwald on this project, indeed their conversations were ongoing when Omidyar got involved. Omidyar has been thinking about getting more involved with media for awhile and was in the bidding for the Washington Post. He seems prepared to fund the new project at the $250 million level he planned to use to purchase the Post; and more after that. Below is an article from Jay Rosen's Press Think which goes into much more detail about the project.

Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization

October 15, 2013 Ben Smith and Rosie Gray, www.buzzfeed.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media

“My role, aside from reporting and writing for it, is to create the entire journalism unit from the ground up by recruiting the journalists and editors who share the same journalistic ethos and shaping the whole thing — but especially the political journalism part — in the image of the journalism I respect most,” he said. Greenwald will continue to live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he said, and would bring some staff to Rio, but the new organization’s main hubs will be New York City; Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco, he said. The venture, which he said had “hired a fair number of people already,” will be “a general media outlet and news site — it’s going to have sports and entertainment and features. I’m working on the whole thing but the political journalism unit is my focus.” Greenwald said he looked forward to creating a new organization with “no preexisting institutional strictures on what you can do.” And he said his move is driven solely by the opportunity presented. “When people hear what it is, there is almost no journalist who would say no to it,” he said.

Greenwald: Journalism Should Expose The Lying Of The Powerful

October 4, 2013 Staff, www.youtube.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA, Video

In this interview on BBC, journalist Glenn Greenwald describes the job of journalist as to "prevent people in power from lying to the people over whom they are ruling." He sees the job of journalists as to "shine a light" on what government is really doing to inform the people who live in democracies. In a healthy democracy the people need to know about what the government is doing to monitor the activities of citizens. And, the more people in power abuse their power, the more they need accountability and transparency. The documents released show a broad dragnet surveillance effort by the UK and US governments of innocent citizens not involved in terrorism. Greenwald says he is in regular contact with his source, Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the Guardian has done a better job of keeping control of the NSA and UK's GCHQ spying documents than the spy agencies have done. BBC Newsnight interviews journalist Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden, the PRISM revelations and mass surveillance. He repeatedly warns the journalist that she should not assume that what the government tells her is true. The interview took place on October 3, 2013.

Scahill, Greenwald Investigating NSA Role in US ‘Assassination Program’

September 30, 2013 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Glenn Greenwald, Media, NSA, Wars and Militarism

Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of "Dirty Wars," said he will be working with Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Though they refused to offer many details on the project, journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on Saturday night announced that they are now working together on joint investigation on how the U.S. National Security Agency has been involved in the wider overseas "assassination program" run by the Obama administration. As the Associated Press reports from Rio de Janeiro—where Greenwald and Scahill attended the South American premiere of Dirty Wars, a documentary film based on Scahill's book of the same name—the U.S. journalists "known for their investigations of the United States' government" have now "teamed up to report" on how the vast surveillance network of the NSA operates in conjunction with clandestine operations run by the U.S. military or CIA.

Glenn Greenwald On Brian Williams’ Iran Propaganda

September 28, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, Iran, Israel, Media, Wars and Militarism

"Obviously, the fact that Iran claims it does not want nuclear weapons is not proof that it is not seeking them or will not seek them at some point in the future; all government statements should be subjected to skepticism (and one can only dream of the day when US media stars subject the statements of their own government to the same skepticism accorded to those of leaders of non-allied countries). But what is true is that US intelligence agencies have repeatedly though secretly concludedthat they do not believe that Iran is building a nuclear weapon, and even top Israeli military officials have expressed serious doubts that Iran is building, or will build, a nuclear weapon. But whether Iran is sincere is an entirely separate question from the one about which Williams radically misled his viewers last night. While Iran's actual intentions regarding nuclear weapons may be debatable, the fact that they have repeatedly and over the course of many years emphatically disclaimed any interest in acquiring nuclear weapons is not debatable. It is indisputable fact that they have done exactly that. There is nothing new or "sudden" about this claim."

The Story Of Edward Snowden And Glenn Greenwald

September 27, 2013 Noam Sheizaf, www.haaretz.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA

One muggy day in May, the journalist Glenn Greenwald and the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras stood outside a restaurant in a Hong Kong mall, waiting for a man who would be carrying a Rubik’s Cube. According to the instructions they had received, they were supposed to ask him what time the restaurant would open. He would reply and add a warning: The food is lousy. Greenwald and Poitras arrived early. The man with the Rubik’s Cube, who was tense and a bit suspicious, told them to follow him to a room in a hotel. There he showed them his employer’s card at Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency. His name was Edward Snowden . . .

Daniel Ellsberg: Whistle-Blowers Are Good For Democracy

September 1, 2013 Robert Scheer, www.truthdig.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

The same is true for Manning. He didn’t put out anything over-secret, and he selected, actually, a body of secret cables that he determined did not even include restrictions on distribution, like “no dis” [no distribution] or “lim dis” [limited distribution]. ...I was surprised to see that there was so much incriminating information at that level that was merely secret. . Apparently, it has gotten so routine to report war crimes, like turning people over to be tortured by the Iraqi authorities and so inconsequential that they are in fact keeping a body count of civilian deaths, which the army had denied keeping. That figure was as high as it was for the army’s secret accounts, 60,000, even though that is probably far less than a tenth of the actual civilian casualties. Still, it’s 60,000 more than they had reported to the public. In short, he had reason to believe that there was nothing in there that would be more than embarrassing to the United States government, and so it has proved.

Miranda Detention: ‘Blatant Attack on Press Freedom’

August 26, 2013 Laura Poitras, www.spiegel.de Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance

Using border crossings to target journalism is not new to me. I experienced it for the first time in 2006 in Vienna, when I was traveling from the Sarajevo Film Festival back to New York. I was put in a van and driven to a security room, searched, and interrogated. The Austrian security agents told me I was stopped at the request of the US government. When I landed in New York I was again searched and interrogated. Since then I have lost count of how many times I have been interrogated at the US border all because of my reporting on post 9/11 issues. I've had electronics seized, notebooks photocopied, and have been threatened with handcuffs for taking notes. I moved to Berlin to edit my next film because I do not feel I can keep source material safe in my own country.

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