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Barack Obama Got Democratic Party To ‘Snap Into Line’ Behind Joe Biden, Says Journalist

Barack Obama Got Democratic Party To ‘Snap Into Line’ Behind Joe Biden, Says Journalist

During an appearance on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald expressed his belief that the recent slew of endorsements for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was orchestrated by former President Barack Obama. “With a phone call or two, Barack Obama got the Democratic Party, with extraordinary obedience, almost creepy like, discipline, to […]

4y ago

Glenn Greenwald Highlights ‘Insulting, Ugly’ Attacks From Elizabeth Warren Supporters

Glenn Greenwald Highlights ‘Insulting, Ugly’ Attacks From Elizabeth Warren Supporters

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently criticized the behavior of Bernie Sanders‘ supporters and said she believes the candidates are responsible for the actions of their supporters. In response, journalist Glenn Greenwald slammed Warren’s suggestion and highlighted the attacks he has faced and observed coming from her supporters. “I’m going to post the insulting, ugly tweets […]

4y ago

Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes By Brazil’s Bolsonaro Government

Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes By Brazil’s Bolsonaro Government

Journalist Glenn Greenwald was arrested in Brazil on Tuesday for cybercrimes, The New York Times reports. He is accused of being part of a “criminal organization” that spread hacked cellphone messages and harmed the image of an anti-corruption task force. The charges stem from the work of the news organization Greenwald co-founded, The Intercept Brasil. […]

4y ago

Glenn Greenwald Slams ‘Massive Media Scandal’ Connected To IG Report

Glenn Greenwald Slams ‘Massive Media Scandal’ Connected To IG Report

Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s report revealed incidences of the FBI abusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process. In a report for The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald took aim at both the FBI’s failures as well as the “massive media scandal” that he claims helped cover up the abuses covered in Horowitz’s report. Greenwald noted […]

4y ago

State Violence In Bolsonaro’s Brazil On The Rise

State Violence In Bolsonaro’s Brazil On The Rise

Last Friday, the Brazilian Military Police (MP) killed 13 people after a shootout in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This happened as President Jair Bolsonaro and Rio governor Wilson Witzel escalate their “drug war” rhetoric, Democracy Now reports. Glenn Greenwald, a Pulitzer-winning Journalist, and husband to Rio city politician David Miranda, quoted Brazilian newspaper Folha in […]

5y ago

#ReleaseTheMemo And #LeakTheMemo Trending On Twitter

#ReleaseTheMemo And #LeakTheMemo Trending On Twitter

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is a United States federal law which prescribes procedures for physical and electronic surveillance and collection of intelligence information. The Act birthed FISC, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It has been amended numerous times since 9/11. More recently, the Senate voted to pass a bill known as the FISA […]

6y ago

Twitter Security Engineer: ‘We Have Full Access To Every Single Person’s Account.’

Twitter Security Engineer: ‘We Have Full Access To Every Single Person’s Account.’

Another scandal is exploding in Silicon Valley. An undercover video that went viral shows senior network security engineer at Twitter, Clay Haynes, sharing insider information about how this social network operates. More precisely, Mr. Haynes shared information about how efficient and far-reaching Twitter’s mechanisms are when it comes to tracking the platform’s users. “What we […]

6y ago

Resistance To Donald Trump Won’t Come From Democrat Leaders, Glenn Greenwald Warns

Resistance To Donald Trump Won’t Come From Democrat Leaders, Glenn Greenwald Warns

Significant resistance to Donald Trump is not going to come from Democrat leaders, Glenn Greenwald warned on Twitter earlier today. I really hope nobody is expecting actual #resistance from Democratic Party leaders. It's going to have to come from elsewhere. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 26, 2017 Greenwald had earlier tweeted a link to a […]

7y ago

CIA Trying To Destroy Trump Even Before He Is Sworn In, Glenn Greenwald Claims

CIA Trying To Destroy Trump Even Before He Is Sworn In, Glenn Greenwald Claims

The headline-making “golden showers” opposition research dossier — which Washington Post editor Bob Woodward of Watergate fame subsequently called a “garbage document” in the clip below — about Donald Trump provides an example of how the pro-Hillary Clinton Central Intelligence Agency and perhaps related U.S. government organizations want to delegitimize or marginalize Donald Trump and […]

7y ago

Hey Real Journalists, Are There Any Of You Left In There?

Hey Real Journalists, Are There Any Of You Left In There?

This is a really good piece in Rolling Stone right now by Matt Taibbi outlining the hidden and overt pressures on journalists today. He goes in to bat for Amy Goodman, champion of the underdog and poster-girl for journalism nerds like me everywhere, a woman so determined to create a media outlet free from government […]

7y ago

Media 100 Percent Against Donald Trump, Glenn Greenwald Claims

Media 100 Percent Against Donald Trump, Glenn Greenwald Claims

The U.S. media is essentially 100 percent against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, journalist Glenn Greenwald reportedly believes. The media is also making the same mistake, according to Greenwald, that their European counterparts made during the Brexit referendum in which most of the European Union-supporting elite press lined up with the losing Remain or Stay […]

7y ago

Glenn Greenwald’s Pundit Prediction Failures And What Really Matters In 2016

Glenn Greenwald’s Pundit Prediction Failures And What Really Matters In 2016

During this 2016 presidential race, GOP candidates have repeatedly attacked the media or found some way to mobilize their base to do the same, and now that most of them are out of the race, they still can’t seem to catch a break. Especially when writer and adversarial journalist Glenn Greenwald reminds voters that it […]

8y ago

‘Citizenfour’ – Edward Snowden Documentary Paints Whistleblower In Favorable Light

‘Citizenfour’ – Edward Snowden Documentary Paints Whistleblower In Favorable Light

Citizenfour, a documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, debuted last weekend at the New York Film Festival, and by all accounts the movie paints Snowden in a favorable light. Calling Citizenfour “seamless and darkly riveting,” Deadline says the film “puts an indelibly human face on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.” Laura Poitras, the film’s director, is […]

9y ago

Snowden Selfie! Ed, Gleen Greenwald Pose In Moscow

Snowden Selfie! Ed, Gleen Greenwald Pose In Moscow

NSA leaker Edward Snowden‘s selfie with Glenn Greenwald, taken in Moscow, has been shared on social media as the pair apparently have connected following the former security contractor’s flight abroad. The Snowden selfie seems to indicate that the NSA’s least favorite former security contractor and The Guardian‘s most embattled investigative journalist are chilling, quite happily […]

10y ago

Obama Misled America On NSA Spying, Glenn Greenwald Says [Video]

Obama Misled America On NSA Spying, Glenn Greenwald Says [Video]

President Obama misinformed the public when he guaranteed that the National Security Agency was not engaging in surveillance of individual Americans’ emails and phone calls. That is the contention of journalist Glenn Greenwald Formerly with the Guardian, Greenwald was the reporter who originally broke the domestic NSA spying scandal with his interview of Edward Snowden, […]

10y ago

Glenn Greenwald Going Rogue, Leaving The Guardian

Glenn Greenwald Going Rogue, Leaving The Guardian

Journalist Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to open his own shop, after breaking one of the year’s biggest political stories worldwide. Glenn Greenwald gave the scoop on his new career move to BuzzFeed, explaining that while he loved working with the British paper, an offer he was unable to refuse cropped up. Greenwald, a […]

10y ago

David Miranda Detained As ‘Document Mule,’ Not Innocent Spouse, Some Say

David Miranda Detained As ‘Document Mule,’ Not Innocent Spouse, Some Say

David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald who was detained Sunday at Heathrow Airport under Britain’s Terrorism Act, may not have been an innocent spouse caught in the crossfire between reporter Greenwald and the British authorities. The 28-year-old Brazilian was returning from Berlin, Germany to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When he made his connection […]

10y ago

Glenn Greenwald Says Of Detention Of Partner David Miranda: ‘You’ll Regret It’

Glenn Greenwald Says Of Detention Of Partner David Miranda: ‘You’ll Regret It’

Glenn Greenwald apparently angered a lot of people by breaking the leak of NSA contractor Edward Snowden weeks ago, which was to be expected. While Glenn Greenwald has been vocally, openly, and unapologetically critical of certain US actions, the Guardian journalist said that a recent incident has spurred him to be even more pointed and […]

10y ago

Glenn Greenwald Partner David Miranda Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Act

Glenn Greenwald Partner David Miranda Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Act

Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport in London on Sunday. Greenwald said that he was awakened at 6:30 AM local time by a call from an unnamed airport security official. According to Greenwald, the official said that Miranda was being held under the Terrorism Act of […]

10y ago

Laura Poitras Called The ‘Keyser Soze’ Of Edward Snowden Story

Laura Poitras Called The ‘Keyser Soze’ Of Edward Snowden Story

Laura Poitras wasn’t Edward Snowden’s first choice to share his secrets about the NSA’s domestic spying program, but in the months since she first made contact with the whistleblower she’s become the face behind the scandal. Snowden, who spilled his secrets about the NSA program to Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, was actually rebuffed in his […]

10y ago

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