Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Edward Greenwaldis an American lawyer, journalist, speaker and author. He is best known for his role in a series of reports in The Guardian newspaper on the classified information made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden, a series which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In February 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 March 1967
CountryUnited States of America
It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.
What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside forces that go in and start bombing that country or invading that country are actually terrorists more so than the people in the country.