Glenn Greenwald speaks out

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Journalist Glenn Greenwald Teaming Up for Investigation on NSA Role in ‘U.S. Assassination Program’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09 ... n-program/

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States' government said Saturday they've teamed up to report on the National Security Agency's role in what one called a "U.S. assassination program."
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"The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program," said Scahill, speaking to moviegoers in Rio de Janeiro, where the documentary based on his book made its Latin American debut at the Rio Film Festival.

2 journalists team up to report NSA role in "US assassination program"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INstQ0KKWqQ

FLASHBACK: Seymour Hersh, JSOC and Delta Force
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZQHVGNSKM

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Countries, Including in Latin America
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/31/s ... es_carried

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in a Dozen Countries 3/31/09 Part 1 of 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9cYwbJLsQ

Sep 28, 11:22 PM EDT
Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations
By JENNY BARCHFIELD
Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States' government said Saturday they've teamed up to report on the National Security Agency's role in what one called a "U.S. assassination program."

The journalists provided no evidence of the purported U.S. program at the news conference, nor details of who it targeted.

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.

"The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program," said Scahill, speaking to moviegoers in Rio de Janeiro, where the documentary based on his book made its Latin American debut at the Rio Film Festival.

"There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce `actionable intelligence,' or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power," said Scahill.

"Dirty Wars" the film, directed by Richard Rowley, traces Scahill's investigations into the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. The movie, which won a prize for cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, follows Scahill as he hopscotches around the globe, from Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia, talking to the families of people killed in the U.S. strikes.

Neither Scahill nor Greenwald, who also appeared at the film festival's question and answer panel, provided many details about their joint project.

Greenwald has been making waves since the first in a series of stories on the NSA spying program appeared in Britain's Guardian newspaper in June. Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postponed a scheduled state dinner with Obama after television reports to which Greenwald had contributed revealed that American spy programs had aggressively targeted the Brazilian government and private citizens.

Rousseff railed against the U.S. surveillance during her address to the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week.

Both Scahill and Greenwald applauded Rousseff's reactions to the revelations, but they warned that U.S. spying could be replaced espionage by another government if care isn't taken.

"The really important thing to realize is the desire for surveillance is not a uniquely American attribute," said Greenwald. "America has just devoted way more money and way more resources than anyone else to spying on the world.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/ ... _GREENWALD

Reporters to reveal ‘US assassination program’
Press TV
September 29, 2013

Two American journalists are working together to expose the role of the US National Security Agency in what they described as a “US assassination program.”

Contributor to The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill and Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on the project.

“The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don’t want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program,” Scahill said on Saturday.

“There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce ‘actionable intelligence,’ or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power,” he added.

Greenwald was the first journalist who broke the revelations about US spying programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

“The really important thing to realize is the desire for surveillance is not a uniquely American attribute,” Greenwald was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

“America has just devoted way more money and way more resources than anyone else to spying on the world,” he added.

Greenwald also praised discussions by some South American governments to find ways to circumvent American control over the Internet.

“But I think it’s also very important to keep in mind that whenever governments, be it the US government or the Brazilian government or anybody else, starts talking about regulating the Internet, even when they tell you it’s designed to protect your privacy from the American government . There is also the danger that the Brazilian government or any other government or international institution will want to simply replace the United States as the entity that is monitoring your communications,” he said.

Court documents have shown that the NSA violated privacy rules for years with its surveillance practices.

The documents released over the past few months reveal a troubling picture of a super spy agency that has sought and won far-reaching surveillance powers to run complex domestic data collection without anyone having full technical understanding of the process.

The privacy violations were first revealed by Snowden in June. He leaked confidential information that showed the NSA collects data of phone records and Internet communication of American citizens.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/29 ... e-exposed/

[seemslikeadream]

Glenn Greenwald, Journalist Who Reported on NSA Surveillance Leaks, to Address Islamic Event
October 3, 2013 - 4:14 AM
By Patrick Goodenough

(CNSNews.com) – The American journalist and commentator who first reported on Edward Snowden’s leaked documents on National Security Agency surveillance programs will be the keynote speaker at an annual Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet next month.

Glenn Greenwald, described as “political commentator, lawyer, columnist,” tops the bill at CAIR California’s “Faith in Freedom” banquet in Anaheim on November 16.

“Join us as we reflect on our past year’s endeavors, honor inspirational figures, and embrace a more tolerant, inclusive and just future for all,” the organization says.

It’s not clear whether Greenwald will attend the event in person or by video link. Queries sent to the banquet organizers brought no reply by press time.

Last June, three weeks after Greenwald broke the Snowden NSA surveillance leaks story for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, he addressed a Socialism Conference in Chicago – via Skype.

Greenwald told the audience, which gave him a rousing reception, that he was beaming in “from the comfort of my little Skype prison” – adding that that was “definitely preferable to an actual prison.”

Since then, Greenwald has published more material on NSA surveillance, including claims of spying on the Brazilian government that prompted its president to cancel a scheduled White House visit and use her speech at the U.N. to accuse the U.S. of a “grave violation” of Brazil’s sovereignty.

In late August, Greenwald became part of the story he was covering when British security officials detained his partner, David Miranda, at London’s Heathrow airport for nine hours, seizing electronic equipment in his possession. Miranda had been carrying data relating to NSA surveillance to Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian lawmakers who have begun an official investigation into the NSA surveillance allegations have asked their government to provide both men with police protection.

Greenwald made headlines again last week when it was reported that he and another American journalist have teamed up to report on the NSA’s role in “the U.S. assassination program.”

Hezbollah, Hamas ‘not remotely a threat’ to US

CAIR has not publicized a topic for Greenwald’s speech in California next month, but the organization holds strong views on NSA surveillance.

Greenwald has also addressed other issues high on CAIR’s agenda. In a 2010 Salon column, he wrote that the word “terrorist” has come to mean “a Muslim who fights against or even expresses hostility towards the United States, Israel and their allies.”

Greenwald’s appearance via Skype in June was the third year in a row he had addressed the annual Socialism Conference, which is sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of the Socialist Worker and the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, which publishes International Socialist Review.

At the 2011 conference he spoke on “Civil liberties under Obama” and in 2012 on “Challenging the U.S. surveillance state.”

The earlier speeches included some controversial statements regarding Islamist terrorism. At the 2011 conference he referred to Anwar Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric and al-Qaeda propagandist who was reported in 2010 to have been approved by the Obama administration for targeted killing.

Greenwald described Awlaki as “an American-born citizen in Yemen who the U.S. government hates because he speaks effectively to the Muslim world about the violence that the U.S. commits in that part of the world and the responsibility of Muslims and the need of Muslims to stand up to this violence.”

“The U.S. hates him because this message is resonating and so the solution is not to charge him with crimes – because he’s not committing any crimes, because you have the First Amendment right to say the things he’s saying – it’s not even to detain him without due process, they’re not bothering with that,” Greenwald continued. “They’re trying to kill him.”

A year before Greenwald gave that speech, Awlaki in online messages praised Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft on Christmas Day 2009, calling them his “students.”

In the same message, the cleric justified the killing U.S. civilians. “Non-combatants are people who do not take part in the war,” he said. “The American people in its entirety takes part in the war, because they elected this administration, and they finance this war.”

Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen about three months after Greenwald made the speech in Chicago.

Greenwald also used the Socialism Conference platform to criticize the U.S. government’s designation of Hamas and Hezbollah as “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs).

“We have organizations on the [FTO] list that are not even remotely a threat to the United States, such as Hezbollah and Hamas which, whatever you think of them are not in any way devoted to harming Americans,” he said.

“They are devoted to protecting their citizens against the State of Israel and yet it is criminal in the United States to do anything that is deemed to be material support for Hezbollah and Hamas. There are people in prison who have been convicted of material support for terrorism, for doing nothing other than for example offering a cable service that includes a Hezbollah television station.”

“Material support of terrorism is really a way to criminalize opposition to U.S. policy in the Middle East and especially U.S. support for Israel,” he added.

Notwithstanding Greenwald’s comment about the two groups not being “remotely a threat” to the U.S., Americans have been among the victims of Hamas’ violent campaign against Israel. U.S. citizens were killed in Hamas bombings in Jerusalem in 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

The U.S. government holds Hezbollah responsible for suicide bombings targeting the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. More than 300 people, most of them Americans, were killed. Before 9/11, the U.S. held Hezbollah responsible for the deaths of more Americans than any other terrorist organization in history.

CAIR describes itself as “America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization,” and says its “mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.”

[seemslikeadream]

[coffin_dodger]

^^^
the msm are looking so out of touch it's embarassing.

[seemslikeadream]

Glenn Greenwald interview

CBC News speaks with Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who first reported details of alleged Canadian spying activity in Brazil

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/World/ID/2411023976/

[seemslikeadream]

Glenn Greenwald, journalist who helped break NSA surveillance story, leaves Guardian
The journalist who helped Edward Snowden uncover the secret program is leaving the British newspaper for an undisclosed ‘momentous new venture.’

BY MICHAEL WALSH / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2013, 5:32 PM

News of Glenn Greenwald’s departure leaked ahead of his planned announcement. ‘My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling,’ Greenwald said.

The journalist who helped Edward Snowden reveal the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program is leaving The Guardian for a "very substantial new media outlet," BuzzFeed reported Tuesday.

Glenn Greenwald, 46, said the details of this "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity" with significant financial backing will be public soon.

"My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved," Greenwald said.

Greenwald said leaving was difficult but that he received an offer no one could refuse.

News of Greenwald's departure — somewhat ironically — leaked before he was prepared to announce it, so he is not yet ready to provide "details of this momentous new venture."

The new organization's main offices will be in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, but Greenwald will stay in Rio de Janeiro, he told BuzzFeed.

Greenwald explained that choosing to leave was not easy but that he was offered an opportunity no journalist could turn down.

Greenwald is a ‘remarkable journalist,’ said a Guardian spokesperson.

Greenwald said he will build an "entire journalism unit from the ground up" by hiring writers and editors who share his journalistic values.

Jennifer Lindenauer, a Guardian spokesperson, said that Greenwald is leaving the organization on good terms, though she is disappointed to lose "a remarkable journalist."

"Our work together over the last year has demonstrated the crucial role that responsible investigative journalism can play in holding those in power to account," she said.

Glenn Greenwald Leaving The Guardian For 'Momentous' New Venture
The Huffington Post | By Jack Mirkinson
Posted: 10/15/2013 4:28 pm EDT | Updated: 10/15/2013 6:16 pm EDT

Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian for a new, as-yet-undescribed website, BuzzFeed reported Tuesday.

Greenwald did not specify what his new project would look like, describing it only as a "momentous new venture" and a "once-in-a-career-dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline." He said that the site would be a general-interest outlet, that he would be responsible for its journalism output, and that it had substantial money behind it.

Speaking to the Washington Post's Erik Wemple, Greenwald said the site would have branches in New York, Washington and San Francisco, and that it was being funded by a "particular backer."

"It would be impossible for any journalist, let alone me, to decline this opportunity," he added.

Greenwald had been with the Guardian for just over a year, during which he led the paper in its reporting of Edward Snowden's NSA leaks and saw his own public profile reach new levels of fame and notoriety.

Greenwald was a blogger with Salon and an independent writer before his move to the Guardian. Before that, he was a constitutional lawyer.

Greenwald issued the following statement:

"My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved.
The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline.

Because this news leaked before we were prepared to announce it, I'm not yet able to provide any details of this momentous new venture, but it will be unveiled very shortly."

A spokesperson for the Guardian said that the paper was "disappointed" to lose Greenwald.

[NeonLX]

Glenn better be careful of the car he will drive at 4 a.m. For some reason, cars at that hour sometimes pick up a lot of speed, then crash, eject the powertrain, and finally burst into really hot flames.

[Joao]

Seems weird. I guess we'll see.

Conspicuously absent is any mention of whether the Snowden/NSA materials (and story) stay with the Guardian or move on with Greenwald. The latter may make more sense but that hardly means it's a foregone conclusion. Nothing addressing this currently on Greenwald's twitter, either.

I also saw that Greenwald is still claiming the worst is yet to come on NSA revelations. I know the dribs-and-drabs approach has its merits and defenders, but it's starting to get a little frustrating and even showboaty. The whole thing is masterminded by Hitler's cryogenically frozen brain, or what?

Maybe he's collaborating with Peter Jackson on a three-part, dramatically-presented 3D feature film that will tell all.

[cptmarginal]

Seems weird. I guess we'll see.

Conspicuously absent is any mention of whether the Snowden/NSA materials (and story) stay with the Guardian or move on with Greenwald. The latter may make more sense but that hardly means it's a foregone conclusion. Nothing addressing this currently on Greenwald's twitter, either.

Yeah, it does seem weird - and that is an important question you've raised. Guess we'll have to wait and see what's up with this. I've been following Glenn Greenwald since the days of his blogspot page in 2005

Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture

[Joao]

A little more. Link in headline.

Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization

A “very substantial new media outlet” with serious backing, he says.

Billionaire-funded journalism reminds me of feudal patronage. Not really a dig on Greenwald, who is surely savvy to what he's getting into, just an observation about the times we live in. We'll see.

Also:

He told BuzzFeed in August that he had not shared all of Snowden’s files with The Guardian, and that “only [filmmaker] Laura [Poitras] and I have access to the full set of documents which Snowden provided to journalists.”

[cptmarginal]

Looking through this list of Omidyar Network partners in an effort to learn more about the man's endeavors...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omidyar_Network#Partners

See also:

http://www.omidyar.com/team

Anyone have some good links to info on Pierre Omidyar? I know next to nothing about him. Pretty much the only reference to him on this forum is here:

The “drones to stop genocide” idea comes out of the liberal extremist establishment, the Center for American Progress and ENOUGH and STAND, Invisible Children, and Raise Hope for Congo and Save Darfur — and these all depend on the new “social networking media” like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Buzz, the Omidyar network, to advance mass murder under the disguise of humanitarianism and philanthropy. Of course, behind all of these are non-profit organizations, and think tanks and foundations. So just follow the money and it leads straight to genocide and war crimes supported by ordinary Americans.

[cptmarginal]

eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar On Why He's Dropped $1 Billion To Make The World A Better Place

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Hmmmm. Greenwald starts to play a tricky game. Snowden is now just a figurehead, with Greenwald running round with a briefcase full of secrets that will be released when he feels like doing it... and working for a billionaire. Some of the sheen is rubbing off this guy. I sincerely hope he is still a good guy. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Nordic]

Well, it's a trust thing. I still have no reason to distrust Greenwald. And without walking the mile in his mocassins, I cannot yet judge his judgement.

At the same time, there's always that "trust no one" dictum in the back of the mind.

It's almost gotten to the point where is the person hasn't been killed off, I have to wonder why not.

By that standard Assange seems pretty credible, having been turned into a virtual prisoner in an Embassy. Snowden seems to be just hanging out in Russia, presumably looking for new pole dancers to date. I mean, how hard can it be for the spooks to find him? And Greenwald, yes, why is he seemingly a free man? Perhaps being gay means there are no children to threaten? But surely he has other beloved family members somewhere.

That's the cynical side of me. The idealistic and perpetually optimistic side backs him 100%.

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It's almost gotten to the point where if the person hasn't been killed off, I have to wonder why not.

- ain't that the truth. I generally begin to trust someone when I have physically seen them speaking, (their demeanor, their passion) - plus body language. Greenwald has struck me as a pretty straight-up chap. I hasten to add that pre-election, I had quite a positive feeling about Obama as well - mind you, that was a few tears ago - just before the rabbit hole turned into a mineshaft and swallowed me whole.