Glenn Greenwald: Snowden's Journalist of Choice (2014) | Watch Documentary Free Online

Glenn Greenwald: Snowden's Journalist of Choice (2014) | Watch Documentary Free Online

In June of 2013, Glenn Greenwald was
the first to report on the classified national security agency
documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, through a
series of articles in "The Guardian." Last November, VICE traveled to
meet Greenwald at his home in Brazil, three months after his partner
David Miranda was detained by British authorities at Heathrow
international airport under the guise of anti-terrorism legislation. The
investigation is ongoing.



The UK and the US governments hate the journalism that Glen is doing.
What they want to do is what they're always trying to do in these
cases, which is use intimidation and bulling to scare people who are
going to continue their reporting. And so, taking his partner and
putting him in a room, and detaining him for what effectively was eleven
hours under a terrorism law, basically branding him a terrorist, is a
way of displaying their power. It is basically saying that 'look at what
it is that we can do to people who defy us, if we chose'.



At that time, Greenwald was angry, he felt helpless, and he was
furious that they will target somebody peripheral to these events
instead of him or the other journalists with whom he's been working, but
at the same time he found the event to be incredibly emboldening
because the authorities showed their true face to the world about how
abusive they are when it comes to the size of their power.