Glenn Edward Greenwald
(born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist, author and lawyer. In 2014, he cofounded ''
The Intercept
''The Intercept'' is an American left-wing news website founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and funded by billionaire eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Its current editor is Betsy Reed. The publication initially reporte ...
'', of which he was an editor until he resigned in October 2020. Greenwald subsequently started publishing on
Substack
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.
In 1996, Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on
First Amendment
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litigation. He began blogging on national security issues in October 2005, while he was becoming increasingly concerned with what he viewed to be attacks on civil liberties by the
George W. Bush Administration
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in the aftermath of the
September 11 attacks
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.
He became a vocal critic of the
Iraq War
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and has maintained a critical position of American foreign policy.
Greenwald started contributing to ''
Salon'' in 2007, and to ''
The Guardian
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'' in 2012. In June 2013, while at ''The Guardian'', he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British
global surveillance
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Its existence was not widely acknowledged by governments and the mainstream media until the global surveillance disclosures by Edwar ...
programs based on classified documents provided by
Edward Snowden. His work contributed to ''
The Guardian
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's'' 2014
Pulitzer Prize win, and he won the
2013 George Polk Award along with three other reporters, including
Laura Poitras.
Through ''
The Intercept Brasil
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'' in June 2019, Greenwald published
leaked conversations between senior officials involved in
Operation Car Wash
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, a corruption case in Brazil. The conversations appeared to show the investigative judge acting prejudicially towards
Lula in the lead up to the
2018 elections
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. Greenwald was charged with cybercrimes over the leaks in January 2020,
though the charges were dismissed by a federal judge a month later.
Early life and education
Greenwald was born in New York City to Arlene and Daniel Greenwald.
Greenwald's family moved to
Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
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when he was an infant;
his parents separated when he was six.
His parents, who are Jewish, and his grandparents did try to introduce him to Judaism, but he grew up without practicing an organized religion, did not have a
bar mitzvah, and has said his "moral precepts aren't informed in any way by religious doctrine".
Greenwald attended Nova Middle School and
Nova High School
Nova High School is a public high school located in Davie, Florida and is part of the Broward County Public Schools district. It is one of four schools that comprise the Nova Center for Applied Research and Professional Development, the others ...
in
Davie, Florida
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.
Inspired by his grandfather's time on the then-
Lauderdale Lakes City Council, Greenwald, still in high school, decided to run at the age of 17 for an
at-large seat on the council in the 1985 elections. He was unsuccessful, coming in fourth place in the race with only 7% of the total vote that election.
In 1991, Greenwald ran again for the at-large seat on the council at age 23, coming in third place but losing once again with less than half of the total votes of his other two opponents.
After two losses during his campaigns for the city council, Greenwald stopped running for political office and instead focused on law school.
He received a
BA in philosophy from
George Washington University
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in 1990 and a
JD from
New York University School of Law
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in 1994.
Career
Litigation attorney
Greenwald practiced law in the litigation department at
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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from 1994 to 1995. In 1996, he co-founded his own litigation firm, Greenwald Christoph & Holland (later renamed Greenwald Christoph PC), where he litigated cases concerning issues of U.S. constitutional law and civil rights.
He worked ''
pro bono'' much of the time, and his cases included representing white supremacist
Matthew Hale in Illinois, whom Greenwald believed was wrongly imprisoned, and the neo-nazi
National Alliance.
About his work in First Amendment speech cases, Greenwald told ''
Rolling Stone
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'' magazine in 2013, "to me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it not when it's easy ... not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate".
Later, according to Greenwald, "I decided voluntarily to wind down my practice in 2005 because I could, and because, after ten years, I was bored with litigating full-time and wanted to do other things which I thought were more engaging and could make more of an impact, including political writing."
''Unclaimed Territory'' and ''Salon''
In October 2005, he began his blog ''Unclaimed Territory'' focusing on the investigation pertaining to the
Plame affair
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In 2002, ...
, the
CIA leak grand jury investigation
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, the federal indictment of
Scooter Libby
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From 2001 to 2005, Libby held the offices of Assistant to the Vice President ...
and the
NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–07)
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controversy. In April 2006, the blog received the 2005 Koufax Award for "Best New Blog".
According to
Sean Wilentz
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in the ''
New Statesman
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'', Greenwald "seemed to take pride in attacking Republicans and Democrats alike".
In February 2007, Greenwald became a contributing writer for the ''
Salon'' website, and the new column and blog superseded ''Unclaimed Territory'', although ''Salon'' featured hyperlinks to it in Greenwald's dedicated biographical section.
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Among the frequent topics of his ''Salon'' articles were the investigation of the
2001 anthrax attacks
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and the candidacy of former CIA official
John O. Brennan for the jobs of either
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Beginning February 2017, the ...
(D/CIA) or the next
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) after the election of
Barack Obama
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. Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for the post after opposition centered in liberal blogs and led by Greenwald.
In a 2010 article for ''Salon'', Greenwald described
U.S. Army
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Private
Chelsea Manning
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as "a
whistle-blower
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acting with the noblest of motives" and "a national hero similar to
Daniel Ellsberg".
In an article for ''
The Raw Story
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History
Byrne, the former editor-in-chief of ''The Oberlin Review'', ...
'' published in 2011, Greenwald criticized the prison conditions in which Manning was held after her arrest by military authorities.
Greenwald was described by
Rachel Maddow during his period writing for ''Salon'' as "the American left’s most fearless political commentator."
''The Guardian''
In July 2012 Greenwald joined the American wing of Britain's ''
Guardian'' newspaper, to contribute a weekly column and a daily blog.
Greenwald wrote on ''Salon'' that the move offered him "the opportunity to reach a new audience, to further internationalize my readership, and to be re-invigorated by a different environment" as reasons for the move.
On June 5, 2013, Greenwald reported on the
top-secret
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United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
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order requiring
Verizon
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to provide the National Security Agency with telephone
metadata for all calls between the U.S. and abroad, as well as all domestic calls.
On October 15, 2013, Greenwald left ''The Guardian'', to pursue a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline".
First Look Media and ''The Intercept''
Financial backing for ''
The Intercept
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'' was provided by
eBay
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founder
Pierre Omidyar.
Omidyar told media critic
Jay Rosen
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the George Foster Peabody Awards board of directors.
Biography
Rosen has been on ...
that the decision was fueled by his "rising concern about press freedoms in the United States and around the world". Greenwald, along with his colleagues
Laura Poitras and
Jeremy Scahill
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, initially were working on creating a platform online to support independent journalism, when they were approached by Omidyar, who was hoping to establish his own media organization. That news organization,
First Look Media
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Overview
The project was started as a collaboration with Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, ...
, launched its first online publication, ''The Intercept'', on February 10, 2014.
Greenwald initially served as editor, alongside Poitras and Scahill. The organization is incorporated as a
501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable entity.
''The Intercept'' was in contact during the 2016 presidential campaign with
Guccifer 2.0, who relayed some of the material about
Hillary Clinton
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, gathered via a data breach, to Greenwald. The Grugq, a counterintelligence specialist, reported in October 2016: "''The Intercept'' was both aware that the e-mails were from Guccifer 2.0, that Guccifer 2.0 has been attributed to Russian intelligence services, and that there is significant public evidence supporting this attribution."
By 2019, he was serving as an ''Intercept'' columnist without any control over the site's news reporting. On October 29, 2020, Greenwald resigned from ''The Intercept'', giving his reasons as political censorship and contractual breaches by the editors, who he said had prevented him from reporting on
allegations concerning Joe Biden's conduct with regard to China and Ukraine and had demanded that he not publish the article in any other publication.
Betsy Reed, the editor-in-chief, disputed Greenwald's accusations and claims of censorship, and accused him of presenting dubious claims by the
Trump campaign as journalism.
Greenwald said he would begin publishing his work on
Substack
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, and had begun "exploring the possibility of creating a new media outlet."
After resigning from ''The Intercept'', Greenwald published his article about Biden and his correspondence with the editors of ''The Intercept'' on his Substack page.
As of mid-2021, according to ''
The Daily Beast
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It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
'' and ''
The Washington Post
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'', Greenwald's feud with former colleagues was continuing.
Appearances on conservative media
According to Simon van Zuylen-Wood writing for ''
New York'' magazine in early 2018, Greenwald has "repositioned himself as a bomb-throwing media critic" since the Snowden revelations.
Greenwald has become a frequent guest on
Fox News
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,
particularly on ''
Tucker Carlson Tonight
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''.
Greenwald, in conversation with
Glenn Beck, acknowledged the frequency of his appearances on
Tucker Carlson
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Carlson began ...
's show.
''The Daily Beast'' established that Greenwald had appeared on Fox News 72 times from December 2017 to June 2021, including 40 times on Carlson's program and 14 appearances with host
Laura Ingraham
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.
Books
Greenwald's first book, ''
How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok'', was published by
Working Assets
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Working Assets' first product was the Better World Credit Card. After the United States deregulated telephone service, the company introduced Working Assets L ...
in 2006. It was a
''New York Times'' bestseller,
and ranked No. 1 on
Amazon.com
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, both before its publication (due to orders based on attention from 'UT' readers and other bloggers) and for several days after its release, ending its first week at No. 293.
''
A Tragic Legacy'', his second book, examined the
presidency
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of
George W. Bush
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. Published in hardback by
Crown
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(a division of
Random House
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) on June 26, 2007, and reprinted in a paperback edition by
Three Rivers Press
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on April 8, 2008, it was also a ''New York Times'' bestseller. ''Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of
Republican
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Political ideology
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
Politics'' was also first published by Random House in April 2008.
Metropolitan Books
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released his fourth and fifth books, ''With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful'' and ''
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State'', in October 2011 and May 2014, respectively.
The latter work spent six weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list,
and was named one of the ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014 by ''
The Christian Science Monitor
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''.
Greenwald wrote the book ''Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Brazil'' as a follow-up to ''No Place to Hide''. It was published by
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a left-wing non-profit, independent book publisher based in Chicago.
History
Haymarket Books was founded in 2001 by Anthony Arnove, Ahmed Shawki and Julie Fain, all of whom had previously worked at the '' International Sociali ...
in April 2021. It describes his publication in 2019 of leaked telephone calls, audio and text messages related to
Operation Car Wash
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and the retaliation he received from
Jair Bolsonaro's government.
Global surveillance disclosure
Contact with Edward Snowden
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Greenwald was initially contacted anonymously in late 2012 by
Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S.
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collecti ...
,
who said he held "sensitive documents" that he wished to share.
Greenwald found the measures that Snowden asked him to take to secure their communications too annoying to employ.
Snowden then contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras about a month later in January 2013.
According to ''The Guardian'', Snowden was attracted to Greenwald and Poitras by a ''
Salon'' article written by Greenwald detailing how Poitras' films had made her a "target of the government".
Greenwald began working with Snowden in either February
or in April, after Poitras asked Greenwald to meet her in New York City, at which point Snowden began providing documents to them both.
As part of the
global surveillance disclosure
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* Bruno ...
, the first of Snowden's documents were published on June 5, 2013, in ''The Guardian'' in an article by Greenwald. Greenwald said that Snowden's documents exposed the "scale of domestic surveillance under Obama".
In September 2021,
Yahoo! News
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reported that in 2017, after the publication of the
Vault 7
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files by
WikiLeaks
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, "top intelligence officials lobbied the White House" to designate Glenn Greenwald as an "information broker" to allow for more investigative tools against him, "potentially paving the way" for his prosecution. However, the White House rejected this idea. "I am not the least bit surprised," Greenwald told Yahoo! News, "that the CIA, a longtime authoritarian and antidemocratic institution, plotted to find a way to criminalize journalism and spy on and commit other acts of aggression against journalists."
The series on which Greenwald worked contributed to ''
The Guardian
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'' (alongside ''The Washington Post'') winning the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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in 2014.
Greenwald's work on the Snowden story was featured in the documentary ''
Citizenfour
''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, ...
'', which won the 2014
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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. Greenwald appeared on stage with director
Laura Poitras and Snowden's girlfriend,
Lindsay Mills
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, to accept the award.
In the 2016
Oliver Stone
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feature film
''Snowden'', Greenwald was played by actor
Zachary Quinto
Zachary John Quinto (; born June 2, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series ''Heroes (American TV series), Heroes'' (2006–2010); Spock in th ...
.
Testimony
In a statement delivered before the
National Congress of Brazil
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in early August 2013, Greenwald testified that the U.S. government had used
counter-terrorism
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as a pretext for clandestine surveillance to compete with other countries in the "business, industrial and economic fields".
On December 18, 2013, Greenwald told the
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...
of the
European Parliament
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that "most governments around the world are not only turning their backs on Edward Snowden but also on their ethical responsibilities".
Speaking via a video link, Greenwald said that, "It is the UK through their interception of underwater fibre optic cables, that is a primary threat to the privacy of
European citizens
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when it comes to their telephone and emails". In a statement given to the
European Parliament
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, Greenwald said:
2019 Operation Car Wash Telegram chat leaks in Brazil
On June 9, 2019, Greenwald and journalists from
investigative journalism
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magazine ''
The Intercept Brasil
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'' where he was an editor,
released several messages exchanged via
Telegram
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between members of the investigation team of
Operation Car Wash
Operation Car Wash ( pt, Operação Lava Jato) was a criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil's Curitiba branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge in France, but unlike judges in the common law ...
. The messages implicated members of Brazil's
judiciary system
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudication, adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and app ...
and of the
Operação Lava-Jato taskforce, including former judge and
Minister of Justice
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
Sérgio Moro
Sergio Fernando Moro (; born 1 August 1972) is a Brazilian jurist, former federal judge, college professor and politician. He was elected to be a member of the Federal Senate for Paraná in October 2022. In 2015 he gained national attention ...
, and lead prosecutor
Deltan Dallagnol, in the violation of legal and ethical procedures during the investigation, trial and arrest of former president
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist, and former metalworker who is the president-elect of Brazil. A member of the Workers' Party ...
, with the alleged objective of preventing him from running for a third term in the
2018 Brazilian general election
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president, National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff round was held ...
, among other crimes. Following the leak, ''
Folha de São Paulo
''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã c ...
'' and ''
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Places
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* Veja, a village in Stănița Commune, Neamț County, Romania
* Veja River, Romania
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Perso ...
'' confirmed the authenticity of the messages and worked in partnership with ''The Intercept Brasil'' to sort the remaining material in their possession before releasing it.
On July 23,
Brazilian Federal Police
The Federal Police of Brazil ( Portuguese: ''Polícia Federal'') is a federal law enforcement agency of Brazil and one of the three national police forces. The other two are the Federal Highway Police, and the National Force. From 1944 to 1967 ...
announced that they had arrested and were investigating
Araraquara
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hacker Walter Delgatti Neto for breaking into the authorities' Telegram accounts. Neto confessed to the hack and to having given copies of the
chat log
A chat log is an archive of transcripts from online chat and instant messaging conversations. Many chat or IM applications allow for the client-side archiving of online chat conversations, while a subset of chat or IM clients (i.e., Google Talk and ...
s to Greenwald. Police said the attack had been accomplished by abusing Telegram's phone number verification and exploiting vulnerabilities in
voicemail
A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to ind ...
technology in use in Brazil by using a spoofed phone number. ''The Intercept'' neither confirmed nor denied Neto being their source, citing
freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic News media, media, especially publication, published materials, should be conside ...
provisions of the 1988
Brazilian Constitution
The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil ( pt, Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil) is the supreme law of Brazil. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of Brazil and the feder ...
.
Greenwald faced death threats and
homophobic
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harassment from Bolsonaro supporters due to his reporting on the
Telegram
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messages.
A ''New York Times'' profile by Ernesto Londoño about Greenwald and his husband
David Miranda, a left-wing congressman, described how the couple became targets of homophobia from Bolsonaro supporters as a result of the reporting.
''The Washington Post'' reported that Greenwald had been targeted with fiscal investigations by the Bolsonaro government, allegedly as retaliation for the reporting, and AP called Greenwald's reporting "the first test case for a free press" under Bolsonaro.
In reporting on retaliation against Greenwald from the Bolsonaro government and its supporters, ''The Guardian'' said the articles published by Greenwald and ''The Intercept'' "have had an explosive impact on Brazilian politics and dominated headlines for weeks", adding that the exposés "appeared to show prosecutors in the sweeping Operation Car Wash corruption inquiry colluding with Sérgio Moro, the judge who became a hero in Brazil for jailing powerful businessmen, middlemen and politicians."
On August 9, after President Bolsonaro threatened to imprison Greenwald for this reporting, Supreme Court justice
Gilmar Mendes
Gilmar Ferreira Mendes (born December 30, 1955) is a Brazilian Justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Brazilian Supreme Federal Court), appointed by then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2002. Mendes was also the Chief Justice for the 200 ...
ruled that any investigation of Greenwald in connection with the reporting would be illegal under the Brazilian constitution, citing press freedom as a "pillar of democracy".
In November 2019, Brazilian columnist Augusto Nunes physically attacked Greenwald during a joint appearance on a Brazilian radio program. Immediately prior to the attack, Nunes had argued that a family judge ought to take away Greenwald's adopted children, prompting Greenwald to call him a "coward." Two of Jair Bolsonaro's sons praised Nunes' actions, while former presidential candidate
Ciro Gomes
Ciro Ferreira Gomes (; born 6 November 1957), known mononymously as Ciro, is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and academic. Ciro is currently affiliated with and vice-president of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT).
Born in São Paulo
Sã ...
defended Greenwald.
In January 2020, Greenwald was charged by Brazilian prosecutors with cybercrimes,
in a move that Trevor Timm in ''The Guardian'' described as retaliation for his reporting.
''
The Canary'' website described the charges as "ominously similar to the indictment of
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army inte ...
" and quoted
Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American journalist, author and blogger who is the editor of ''The Grayzone'' website, which is known for spreading conspiracy theories and engaging in denial of atrocities committed by dictatorial ...
and
Jen Robinson as remarking on the similarity of the two sets of charges. Greenwald received support from ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' which published an editorial stating "Mr. Greenwald's articles did what a free press is supposed to do: They revealed a painful truth about those in power". The
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press. The organization originally managed crowd-funding campaigns for independent journalistic organizations, ...
made a statement asking the Brazilian government to "halt its persecution of Greenwald". In February 2020, a federal judge dismissed the charges against Greenwald, citing a ruling from Supreme Court justice Gilmar Mendes that shielded him.
Political views
United States
George W. Bush and Barack Obama eras
![Greenwald and Miranda at Congress](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Greenwald_and_Miranda_at_Congress.jpg)
In his 2006 book ''
How Would a Patriot Act?'', Greenwald wrote that he was politically apathetic at the time of the
Iraq War
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and accepted the Bush administration's judgement that "American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country". Greenwald is critical of actions jointly supported by Democrats and Republicans, writing in 2010: "The worst and most tyrannical government actions in Washington are equally supported on a fully bipartisan basis."
In ''How Would a Patriot Act?'', Greenwald described his 'pre-political' self as neither
liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
nor
conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...
as a whole, voting neither for
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
nor for any of his rivals (indeed, not voting at all).
He criticized the policies of the
Bush administration and those who supported it, arguing that most of the American
"Corporate News Media" excused Bush's policies and echoed the administration's positions rather than asking hard questions.
Greenwald accused mainstream U.S. media of "spreading patriotic state propaganda".
Donald Trump and Russian election interference
Greenwald has criticized some of the policies of the
Trump administration
Donald Trump's tenure as the List of presidents of the United States, 45th president of the United States began with Inauguration of Donald Trump, his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021. Trump, a Republican Party ...
, saying, "I think the Trump White House lies more often. I think it lies more readily. I think it lies more blatantly."
During the Trump administration Greenwald was a critic of the Democratic Party, alleging a double standard in their foreign policy: "Democrats didn't care when Obama hugged
Saudi despots, and now they pretend to care when Trump embraces Saudi despots or
Egyptian ones."
Greenwald expressed skepticism of the
James Clapper
James Robert Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and former Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. H ...
-led US intelligence community's assessment that Russia's government
interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
Regardless of the accuracy of the assessment, he doubted its significance,
stating "This is stuff we do to them, and have done to them for decades, and still continue to do."
Susan Hennessey, an NSA lawyer at the time of Snowden's NSA revelations, told
Marcy Wheeler
Marcy Wheeler (known on Twitter by the handle "emptywheel") is an American independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties. Wheeler publishes on her own site, ''Emptywheel'', established in July 2011. She has reported ...
writing for ''
The New Republic
''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hum ...
'' in January 2018, that Greenwald was only relaying "surface commentary" rather than evidence for or against Russian interference in the 2016 election. Tamsin Shaw wrote in ''
The New York Review of Books
''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...
'' in September 2018: "Greenwald has repeatedly, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, decried as Russophobia the findings that Putin ordered interference in the 2016 US presidential election".
Greenwald remained doubtful of assertions that the Trump presidential campaign worked with the Russians after the release of the letter about the Mueller's findings from attorney general
William Barr
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the 77th and 85th United States attorney general in the administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump.
Born and raised in New York City, Barr ...
in late March 2019. He called the investigation "a scam and a fraud from the beginning" in an appearance on ''Democracy Now!''. Greenwald told Tucker Carlson on
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
: "Let me just say,
SNBC
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should have their top host on primetime go before the cameras and hang their head in shame and apologize for lying to people for three straight years, exploiting their fears to great profit". He said he is formally banned from appearing on MSNBC, citing confirmations from two unnamed producers for the network, for his criticisms of its coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. MSNBC stated it has not barred Greenwald from appearing on its programs.
After the release of Special Counsel
Robert Mueller's report, on April 22 he wrote that the press continued to report that Trump's campaign conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. In January 2020, Greenwald described the various assertions regarding Russian influence on American politics as "At the very best, ... wildly exaggerated hysteria and the kind of jingoistic fear-mongering that’s plagued U.S. Politics since the end of WWII".
Later comments
In conversation around 2021 with Glenn Beck, Greenwald said:
The Democratic Party is a party that I view as completely repressive and not just the Democratic Party but the liberal movement that supports it. By liberal, just to be clear, I don't mean the far left, the kind of left-wing movement that supported Bernie Sanders—a lot of them hate Democrats at least as much as people on the right. I mean establishment liberals of the Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton strain.
On Twitter, he wrote in May 2021:
The cultural left (meaning the part of the left focused on cultural issues rather than imperialism or corporatism) ... has become increasingly censorious, moralising, controlling, repressive, petulant, joyless, self-victimising, trivial and status-quo-perpetuating.
In an appearance on ''
Tucker Carlson Tonight
''Tucker Carlson Tonight'' is an American talk show and current affairs program hosted by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on the television network Fox News. The show premiered in November 2016 and includes political commentary, monolog ...
'' in summer 2021, he said:
We know that the Democratic party and journalism in general has aligned with the CIA, NSA, and the FBI, and has aligned and merged with the security state.
In a conversation with Laura Ingraham on Fox News in November 2021, he said of the
2021 United States Capitol attack
On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of then-U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob was seeking to keep Trump in pow ...
:
What happened here, Laura, is that ongressional investigatorsknow the Justice Department is not going to deliver on this narrative that they peddled for eight months, which was that this was an insurrection, these people are traitors, that they engaged in sedition.
Israel and accusations of antisemitism
![2019 Jantar na Residência do Primeiro-Ministro de Israel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/2019_Jantar_na_Resid%C3%AAncia_do_Primeiro-Ministro_de_Israel.jpg)
Greenwald has criticized the Israeli government, including its foreign policy,
influence on U.S. politics and the
Israeli occupation
Israeli-occupied territories are the lands that were captured and occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. While the term is currently applied to the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, it has also been used to refer to a ...
of the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
.
In May 2016, Greenwald accused ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' of "abject cowardice" in its use of scare quotes for the occupation of Gaza (which were removed) and alleged "journalistic malfeasance" in the incident "out of fear of the negative reaction by influential factions".
In an exchange with Greenwald in February 2019, Rep.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., tweeted, "It's all about the Benjamins baby", suggesting that money rather than principle motivated US politicians'
support for Israel, including payments from the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC ) is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. One of several pro-Israel lobbying organizations in the United Stat ...
(AIPAC) to US politicians. Many Democrats and Republicans, including House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia Pelosi (; ; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019 and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has represented in the United States House of ...
, condemned the tweet arguing it perpetuated an
antisemitic
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
stereotype of Jewish money and influence fueling American politicians' support of Israel. Greenwald defended Omar: "we’re not allowed to talk about an equally potent
well-organized and well-financed lobby that ensures a bipartisan consensus in support of U.S. defense of Israel, that the minute that you mention that lobby, you get attacked as being anti-Semitic."
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 22, 1965) is an American journalist and editor-in-chief of ''The Atlantic'' magazine. During his nine years at ''The Atlantic'' prior to becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affa ...
in ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'' in January 2012 said Greenwald "evinces toward Israel a disdain that is quite breathtaking. He holds Israel to a standard he doesn't hold any other country, except the U.S." Greenwald was accused of antisemitism by ''
The Algemeiner
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History
In 1972, Gershon Jacobson founded the Yiddish-language ...
'' in July 2013.
Liel Leibovitz
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in ''
Tablet'' magazine in 2013 considered it "largely inaccurate" to match Greenwald's "obsessive focus on Israel’s supposed role in evil global conspiracies to simple anti-Semitism. Instead, the ideology that drives
istendency to see the NSA and Israel as two heads of the same Satanic beast is more complex and ideologically-driven—an attack on the doctrines of exceptionalism that fueled the rise of both America and Israel."
Following the
''Charlie Hebdo'' murders in January 2015,
David Bernstein in ''The Washington Post'' wrote Greenwald (in an ''Intercept'' article) "certainly appears to believe that ''Der Sturmer''-like anti-Semitic cartoons are the moral and logical equivalent of making fun of Moses or Muhammed." In his ''Intercept'' article, Greenwald contrasted anti-Muslim cartoons with "some not-remotely-blasphemous-or-bigoted yet very pointed and relevant cartoons by the brilliantly provocative Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff",
a cartoonist who has been accused of producing antisemitic images.
Julian Assange
In a November 2018 ''Guardian'' article,
Luke Harding
Luke Daniel Harding (born 21 April 1968) is a British journalist who is a foreign correspondent for ''The Guardian''. He was based in Russia for ''The Guardian'' from 2007 until, returning from a stay in the UK on 5 February 2011, he was refus ...
and Dan Collyns cited anonymous sources which stated that Trump's former campaign manager
Paul Manafort
Paul John Manafort Jr. (; born April 1, 1949) is an American lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney. A long-time Republican Party campaign consultant, he chaired the Trump presidential campaign from June to August 2016. Manafort served ...
held secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army inte ...
inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2013, 2015, and 2016. Greenwald said that if Manafort had entered the Ecuadorian consulate, there would be evidence from the surrounding cameras.
Greenwald, a former contributor to ''The Guardian'', stated that the paper "has such a pervasive and unprofessionally personal hatred for Julian Assange that it has frequently dispensed with all journalistic standards in order to malign him."
Greenwald criticized the government's decision to charge Assange under the
Espionage Act of 1917
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War ...
for his role in the 2010 publication of the
Iraq War documents leak
The Iraq War documents leak is the disclosure to WikiLeaks of 391,832 United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 and published on the Internet on 2010. The files record 66,081 civilian deat ...
. Greenwald wrote in ''The Washington Post'': "The Trump administration has undoubtedly calculated that Assange’s uniquely unpopular status across the political spectrum
n the United Statesmakes him the ideal test case for creating a precedent that criminalizes the defining attributes of investigative journalism."
Jair Bolsonaro
In October 2018, Greenwald said that Bolsonaro was "often depicted wrongly in the Western media as being Brazil's
Trump
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* Donald Trump (born 1946), 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)
* Trump (card games), any playing card given an ad-hoc high rank
Trump may also refer to:
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, and he's actually much closer to say Filipino President
Duterte or even the Egyptian dictator General
el-Sisi in terms of what he believes and what he's probably capable of carrying out."
Greenwald said that Bolsonaro could be a "good partner" for President Trump "If you think that the U.S. should go back to kind of the
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile ac ...
as
ational Security AdviserJohn Bolton
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United Sta ...
talked openly about, and ruling Latin America, and U.S. interests".
Greenwald has faced death threats and homophobic harassment from Bolsonaro supporters due to his reporting on leaked
Telegram
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...
messages about Brazil's
Operation Car Wash
Operation Car Wash ( pt, Operação Lava Jato) was a criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil's Curitiba branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge in France, but unlike judges in the common law ...
and Bolsonaro's justice minister
Sérgio Moro
Sergio Fernando Moro (; born 1 August 1972) is a Brazilian jurist, former federal judge, college professor and politician. He was elected to be a member of the Federal Senate for Paraná in October 2022. In 2015 he gained national attention ...
.
President Bolsonaro threatened Greenwald with possible imprisonment. The
Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism
Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo ( ''Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism''; abbreviated as ABRAJI) is an organization for Brazilian Journalists wanting to exchange information, experiences, and tips about investiga ...
condemned Bolsonaro's threats.
In January 2020, Brazilian federal prosecutors charged Greenwald with cybercrimes, alleging he was part of a "criminal organization" that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and other public officials in 2019. Prosecutors said he played a "clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime" by, for example, encouraging hackers to delete archives to cover their tracks. Greenwald, who was not detained, called the charges "an obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported about Minister of Justice Sérgio Moro and the Bolsonaro government."
In February 2020, a federal judge dismissed the charges against Greenwald, citing a ruling from Supreme Court justice Gilmar Mendes that shielded him.
Immigration
In 2005, Greenwald criticized
illegal immigration
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, saying that it would result in a "parade of evils" and arguing that large numbers of illegal immigrants could not be assimilated and would "wreak havoc". He subsequently disavowed that belief.
Animal rights and veganism
Greenwald is a
vegan
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. ...
and an advocate for
animal rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the sa ...
. He and his husband Miranda have 24 rescue dogs.
In March 2017, Greenwald announced plans to build a shelter with Miranda for stray pets in Brazil that would be staffed by homeless people.
In March 2018, Greenwald tweeted videos showing the shelter operating.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
In an appearance on ''Tucker Carlson Tonight'', Greenwald expressed support for the
Ukraine biolabs conspiracy theory
In March 2022, during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian officials falsely claimed that public health facilities in Ukraine were "secret U.S.-funded biolabs" purportedly developing biological weapons, which was debunked as disinformation by ...
.
In 2022, the
Security Service of Ukraine
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placed Greenwald on a list of public figures who it alleges promote Russian propaganda.
Reception
Greenwald has been placed on numerous "top 50" and "top 25" lists of columnists in the United States. In June 2012, ''
Newsweek
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'' magazine named him one of America's Top Ten Opinionists, saying that "a righteous, controlled, and razor-sharp fury runs through a great deal" of his writing, and: "His independent persuasion can make him a danger or an asset to both sides of the aisle."
Josh Voorhees Josh Voorhees is an American political journalist and senior writer for '' Slate'', and the former editor of its news blog Slatest. He graduated from Davidson College, and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. In 2013, he was named a fellow of the ...
, writing for ''
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
'', reported that in 2013 congressman
Peter King (R-NY) suggested Greenwald should be arrested for his reporting on the
NSA PRISM program and NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Journalist
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for ''The New York Times'' and a co-anchor of CNBC's ''Squawk Box.'' He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news s ...
said "I would arrest
Snowden">/nowiki>Snowden/nowiki> and now I'd almost arrest Glenn Greenwald", but later made an apology for his statement, which Greenwald accepted.
In a February 2014 interview, Greenwald said he risked detention if he reentered the U.S., but insisted that he would "force the issue" on principle, and return for the "many reasons" he had to visit, including if he won a prestigious award of which he was rumoured to be the winner. Later that month, it was announced that he was, in fact, among the recipients of the 2013 Polk Awards, to be conferred April 11, 2014, in Manhattan. In a subsequent interview, Greenwald stated he would attend the ceremony. On April 11, Greenwald and Laura Poitras accepted the Polk Award in Manhattan. Their entry into the United States was trouble-free and they traveled with an ACLU attorney and a German journalist "to document any unpleasant surprises". Accepting the award, Greenwald said he was "happy to see a table full of ''Guardian'' editors and journalists, whose role in this story is much more integral than the publicity generally recognizes". On April 14, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalis ...
was awarded jointly to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Washington Post
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'' for revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the NSA. Greenwald, along with Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill
Ewen MacAskill (born 1951)Bryan Burrough, Sarah Ellison and Suzanna Andrew"The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light" ''Vanity Fair'', May 2014 is a Scottish journalist. He worked for 22 years on ''The Guardian'', ending his career in ...
, had contributed to ''The Guardian''′s reporting.
In 2014, Sean Wilentz in ''The New Republic
''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hum ...
'', commented that some of Greenwald's opinions are where the far-left and far-right meet. In a 2017 article in ''The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
'', Brian Dean wrote: "Greenwald has been critical of Trump, but is perceived by many as someone who spends far more time criticising 'Dems' and 'liberals' (analysis of his Twitter account tends to give this impression)." Simon van Zuylen-Wood in a 2018 piece for '' New York'' magazine entitled "Does Glenn Greenwald Know More Than Robert Mueller?" described "a new-seeming category of Russia-skeptic firebrands sometimes called the alt-left." In February 2019, Max Boot
Max Alexandrovich Boot (born September 12, 1969) is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer and editor for ''Christian Science Monitor'' and then for ''The Wall Street Journal'' in the ...
wrote in ''The Washington Post'': "Indeed, it’s often hard to tell the extremists apart. Anti-vaccine activists come from both the far left and the far right — and while most of those who defend President Trump's dealings with Russia are on the right, some, such as Glenn Greenwald and Stephen F. Cohen, are on the left." In a May 2019 ''Haaretz
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'' article, Alexander Reid Ross
Alexander Reid Ross is an American author and adjunct geography lecturer at Portland State University with fellowships at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) in the UK and at Political Research Associates. He is author of ''Aga ...
described Tucker Carlson's and Glenn Greenwald's positions as being a "crossover between leftists and the far-right in defense of Syria's Bashar Assad, to dismiss charges of Russian interference in U.S. elections and to boost Russian geopolitics".
Personal life
In 2005, Greenwald took a long vacation to Rio de Janeiro
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where he met David Miranda, a then 19-year-old who had spent his childhood in the Jacarezinho Favela
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. Days after they met, the couple decided to move in together; the two would later marry. Miranda now serves as a Congressman with the left-wing PSOL
The Socialism and Liberty Party ( pt-BR, Partido Socialismo e Liberdade , PSOL ) is a left-wing political party in Brazil. The party describes itself as socialist and democratic.
The party leader is Juliano Medeiros and the federal deputies I ...
party. The couple live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2017, Greenwald and Miranda announced that they had gained legal guardianship of two brothers, who are from Maceió
Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form l ...
, a city in Northeastern Brazil. They formally adopted the two boys in Brazil in 2018.
Greenwald and Miranda were close personal friends of Brazilian human rights advocate and politician Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco (; born Marielle Francisco da Silva, 27 July 1979 – 14 March 2018) was a Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist and human rights activist. After earning a master's degree in public administration from the F ...
, known for criticism of police tactics and corruption, and fatally shot by unknown assailants. A ''New York Times'' profile described how Greenwald's reporting on high-level Bolsonaro officials and Miranda's outspoken opposition in Congress turned them into primary targets of Bolsonaro's administration.
While Greenwald does not participate in any organized religion, he has said he believes in "the spiritual and mystical part of the world" and that yoga
Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciou ...
is "like a bridge into that, like a window into it." Greenwald has been critical of the New Atheist movement, in particular, Sam Harris
Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics ...
and other critics of Islam
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.
Awards
Greenwald received, together with Amy Goodman
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, the first Izzy Award
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for special achievement in independent media, in 2009, and the 2010 Online Journalism Award
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The majority of ON ...
for Best Commentary for his investigative work on the conditions of Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning; December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage A ...
.
His reporting on the National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collecti ...
(NSA) won numerous other awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the George Polk Award
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for National Security Reporting, the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his articles in ''O Globo
''O Globo'' (, ''The Globe'') is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. ''O Globo'' is the most prominent print publication in the Grupo Globo media conglomerate.
Founded by journalist Irineu Marinho, owner of ''A Noite'', it was orig ...
'' on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the first foreigner to win the award), the 2013 Libertad de Expresion Internacional award from Argentinian magazine ''Perfil
''Perfil'' is an Argentine weekly newspaper based in Buenos Aires and refounded in 2005.
History
The newspaper was first launched by Jorge Fontevecchia on 9 May 1998 as a daily newspaper, but poor sales forced its closure on 31 July of the sa ...
'', and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet ci ...
. The team that Greenwald led at ''The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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for their reporting on the NSA. Foreign Policy Magazine
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then named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013.
In 2014, Greenwald received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis is a literary prize which is awarded annually by the Bavarian chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the city of Munich. Every year, a book is honoured, which "shows intellectual independence and ...
, an annual German literary award, for the German edition of '' No Place to Hide''. Greenwald was also named the 2014 recipient of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is a constituent college of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. Established in 1915, Grady College offers undergraduate degrees in journalism, advertising, public re ...
of the University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things."
, establ ...
.
Books
* 2022 ''Brazil Book''. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited; (10); (13).
* 2021 ''Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil''. Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a left-wing non-profit, independent book publisher based in Chicago.
History
Haymarket Books was founded in 2001 by Anthony Arnove, Ahmed Shawki and Julie Fain, all of whom had previously worked at the '' International Sociali ...
;
* 2014 '' No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State''. Metropolitan Books
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(Div. of Henry Holt and Company); (10); (13).
* 2011 ''With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful''. Metropolitan Books
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(Div. of Henry Holt and Company); (10). (13).
* 2008 '' Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics''. New York: Random House
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, (10); (13). (Also available as an E-book
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.)
* 2007 '' A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency''. New York: Crown
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(Div. of Random House
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) (10); (13). (Hardback ed.) Three Rivers Press
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, 2008; (10); (13). (Paperback ed.)
* 2006 '' How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok''. San Francisco: Working Assets
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(Distrib. by Publishers Group West); (10); (13).
References
Further reading
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"Glenn Greenwald Exposes Frank Gaffney"
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"Glenn Greenwald on Joe Klein, Dave Tomlin on Bilal Hussein"
''CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) is a progressive left-leaning media critique organization based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1986 by Jeff Cohen and Martin A. Lee. FAIR monitors American news media for bias, inaccura ...
'', November 30, 2007 – December 6, 2007. Accessed December 12, 2008. MP3 clips hosted on ''Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
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'' (FAIR).
* Bernstein, Fred A.
"Glenn Greenwald: Life Beyond Borders"
''Out magazine
''Out'' is an American LGBTQ news, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine, with the highest circulation of any LGBTQ monthly publication in the United States. It presents itself in an editorial manner similar to '' Details'', ''Esquire' ...
'', April 19, 2011; accessed April 20, 2011.
* Goodman, Amy
"Great American Hypocrites: Glenn Greenwald on the Corporate Media's Failures in the 2008 Race
''Democracy Now!
''Democracy Now!'' is an hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at ...
'', Pacifica Radio
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* ''Pacifica'' (statue), a 1938 statue by Ralph Stackpole for the Golden Gate International Exposition
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* Pacifica, California, a city in the United States
** Pacifica Pier, a fishing pier
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, April 18, 2008; accessed December 12, 2008. ("We speak with Glenn Greenwald, author of ''Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics''. ncludes rush transcript")
* Goodman, Amy
"Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald"
''Democracy Now!'', Pacifica Radio, July 22, 2008; accessed December 13, 2008 (includes rush transcript).
* Greenwald, Glenn
"Book Forum: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency"
''Cato Institute
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'', August 7, 2007. anel discussion featuring Greenwald, "with comments by Lee Casey, Partner, Baker Hostetler." (Hyperlinked MP3 podcast and RealVideo formats.)]
* Greenwald, Glenn
"Media: Glenn Greenwald at YearlyKos"
''Salon.com
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Content and coverage
''Salon'' covers a variety of topics, including re ...
'', August 7, 2007; accessed December 13, 2008. ideo segment from Glenn Greenwald's panel at YearlyKos 2007, "where he stresses the continued need for adversarial, skeptical reporting." ("VideoDog" format.)]
* Nico Pitney, Pitney, Nico
"A Secure America: Video: Glenn Greenwald Debates Spying Program On C-Span"
Online posting of clip of program broadcast on C-SPAN, February 6, 2006. ThinkProgress.com, February 6, 2006; accessed December 12, 2008. reenwald_debates_University_of_Virginia_law_professor_Robert_Turner..html" ;"title="University_of_Virginia.html" ;"title="reenwald debates reenwald_debates_University_of_Virginia_law_professor_Robert_Turner.">University_of_Virginia.html"_;"title="reenwald_debates_University_of_Virginia">reenwald_debates_University_of_Virginia_law_professor_Robert_Turner.*_Ken_Silverstein.html" ;"title="University of Virginia">reenwald debates University of Virginia law professor Robert Turner.">University_of_Virginia.html" ;"title="reenwald debates University of Virginia">reenwald debates University of Virginia law professor Robert Turner.* Ken Silverstein">Silverstein, Ken
"Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage"
''Harper's Magazine'', February 21, 2008; accessed December 12, 2008.
* Singal, Jesse, and Glenn Greenwald
"On Terrorism, Civil Rights, and Building a Blog"
''Campus Progress
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'', September 17, 2007; accessed December 12, 2008. nterview.* Greenwald, Glenn
"Civil liberties under Obama"
''International Socialist Organization
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'', July 3, 2011; accessed July 7, 2011. ideo.
External links
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Substack
– Greenwald's current journalism venture (as of October 29, 2020)
''The Intercept''
(February 2014 – October 2020)
"Glenn Greenwald"
– previous column at ''The Guardian''
"Glenn Greenwald"
– previous column and blog hosted on ''Salon.com''
''Unclaimed Territory''
– previous personal blog hosted on '' Blogspot.com''
Glenn Greenwald appearances
on ''Democracy Now!
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