▶ Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, April 11 - YouTube
▶ Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, April 11 - YouTube
In headlines today, we report that Glenn Greenwald
and Laura Poitras, the two journalists who broke the story about Edward
Snowden's leaks on NSA surveillance, are returning to the United States
today for the first time since their reports were released. They are
attending a ceremony in New York today to receive the George Polk Award
for National Security Reporting.
Greenwald told The Huffington Post
he wants to return because "certain factions in the U.S. government
have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists"
and "it's just the principle that I shouldn’t allow those tactics to
stop me from returning to my own country." Poitras, an award-winning
filmmaker who reports on U.S. wars and surveillance, has also been
detained dozens of times in the past, when re-entering the United
States. (See her interview about being detained at democracynow.org.)
