"Right Out of a Spy Movie": Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden | Democracy Now!
"Right Out of a Spy Movie": Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden | Democracy Now!
In part two of our extended interview, journalist Glenn Greenwald tells
the inside story of meeting National Security Agency whistleblower
Edward Snowden. Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras were the
journalists who first met Snowden in Hong Kong last June, going on to
publish a series of disclosures that exposed massive NSA
surveillance to the world. Greenwald has just come out with a new book
on the Snowden leaks and their fallout, "No Place to Hide: Edward
Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance
State." Recalling his first encounter with Snowden, Greenwald says: "The
big question was: How are we going to know that it’s you? We know
nothing about you. We don’t know how old you are, what you look like or
what your race is or even your gender. And he said, ’You’ll know me
because I’ll be holding in my left hand a Rubik’s cube.’ And so, he
walked in, was holding a Rubik’s cube, came over to us, introduced
himself, and that was how we met him."
