Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald ( born March 6, 1967 in New York City ) is an American journalist, blogger, writer and lawyer.
Worldwide gained fame Greenwald when he prepared the documents submitted by Edward Snowden in 2013 for the top-secret NSA surveillance program PRISM, together with an interview Snowden and early June 2013, published in the British newspaper The Guardian. Because of this and the following reports he is a figure of global surveillance and espionage. Since February 2014 he has worked as a central figure of The Intercept.
Life
Glenn Greenwald was born on 6 March 1967 at the New York City borough Queens, the son of Arlene and Daniel Greenwald. However, shortly after birth, the family moved to the south of Florida, where he grew up and ran unsuccessfully for the City Council with 17 years of Lauderdale Lakes.
In the 1980s, Greenwald began at George Washington University to study law, after which he was awarded the Bachelor 1990. Four years later, he gained further the academic degree of Juris Doctor at New York University.
Legal profession
1994-1995 Greenwald worked for the renowned law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and was there on specialized litigation. In 1996 he founded with fellow partners own firm Greenwald Christoph & Holland (later Greenwald Christoph PC) and treated cases which touched on constitutional or civil rights of U.S. citizens. 2005 Greenwald ceased to practice, by its own account, because he especially to political events hoped to have a greater impact on society from writing. He also claimed to be not dependent on the income of his office and bored of processes.
He went on several months of travel in Brazil and learned his current life partner David Miranda know. Since that time it was not possible to obtain by relying solely on a same-sex partnership for a residence permit for the United States, and he remained Greenwald. , Rio de Janeiro, where they live today
Journalistic activity
Unclaimed Territory
From Rio de Janeiro from Greenwald ran the blog Unclaimed Territory ( German Unoccupied area ) and was mainly concerned with the Plame affair, the resulting investigation of a grand jury, the scandal of perjury by Lewis Libby and the affair of the monitoring functions of the NSA without judicial Decision from 2001 and 2007. the blog has won the 2006 Koufax Award for Best New Blog.
Salon.com
2007 Green Forest has been committed by the online platform Salon.com and gave it to his previous blog. He also wrote there about security and socio-political issues, such as the anthrax attacks of 2001. Due to the entrained by Greenwald offensive against the candidacy of John O. Brennan for leadership positions Director of Central Intelligence and Director of National Intelligence that finally renounced. Brennan was accused sympathizer of the interrogation methods (see Abu Ghraib torture scandal ) to be the administration of George W. Bush. As early 2013, Barack Obama offered him the same position, he could not do without again.
The Guardian
In June 2012, Greenwald joined the British newspaper The Guardian. After his meeting with Edward Snowden in January 2013 he was mainly occupied with the preparation of the material provided by Snowden available to the extent of alleged nine or ten thousand files.
As a precaution, and for fear of repression he made copies of documents and transmits them to part with them.
On August 18, 2013 were David Miranda, Greenwald's partner, held nearly nine hours at London Heathrow Airport on the way back from a meeting in Berlin with Laura Poitras and interrogated. In addition withheld " his electronic devices, including mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory cards, DVDs and games consoles " total were on the storage media 58,000 documents GCHQ, whose unfiltered release to the public the safety of Britain could gefärden - so the government Cameron's representative. According to a spokesman from Scotland Yard, this procedure is covered by the Terrorism Act 2000. The following action Miranda before the London High Court of Justice Miranda fixing and confiscation was judged to be appropriate, the lawyers provided by the Guardian argued unsuccessfully with his fundamental right to free speech and the fear that the stigmatized by accusations by the Terrorism Act Affected and would be discredited so willingly. The judgment of Lord John Laws recognized an " indirect conflict with the freedom of the press " on, evaluates the setting on the lawful under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act maximum duration of 9 hours without formal justification and judicial review as "necessary " and " proportionate ". In the main method as well as the announced appointment of Miranda argue with the journalistic work of Miranda and the resulting broken Freedom of the Press, Miranda was traveling at the expense of the Guardian and on its behalf.
" We're disappointed by today 's judgment, Which Means That You designed to act to defeat terrorism can now be used to catch Those Who are working on Fundamentally important issues. The judgment takes a narrow view of what ' journalism ' is in the 21st century and a very wide view of the definition of ' terrorism '. "
"We are disappointed with today's judgment, which means that a law protecting against terrorism can be used against this now, follow the fundamental, important concerns. The judgment shows a very narrow definition of ' journalism ', but a very generous definition of ' terrorism '. "
The Intercept
In October 2013 Greenwald announced that he would form together with colleagues and with funding provided by the eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, a new journalistic online medium. On February 10, 2014, he started with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill The Intercept:
"A primary function of The Intercept is to insist upon and defend our press freedoms from Those Who wish to infringe them. We are deterministic mined to move forward with what we believe is essential reporting in the public interest and with a commitment to the ideal did a truly free and independent press is a vital component of any healthy democratic society. We believe the prime value of journalism is did it imposes transparency, accountability and Malthus, on Those Who wield the greatest governmental and corporate power. Our journalists will be not only permitted, but Encouraged, to pursue stories without regard to splat They Might alienate. "
" Elementary Function of The Intercept is to insist on freedom of the press and against denjeingen to defend that violate these. We are determined us to move forward in what we believe to be essential reports in the public interest. Our commitment applies to the ideal of truly free and independent press as a vital component in any healthy democratic society. We believe that it is fundamental task of journalism to create transparency and of which demonstrate the responsibility, which hold the largest political and corporate power. Our journalists will not only be allowed, it is encouraged to pursue stories without regard to who could be applied against them. "
Awards
- 2009: Izzy Award for Independent Journalism
- 2010: Online Journalism Award for Best Commentary
- 2013: Prize for the Freedom and Future of Media
Publications
Greenwald has written four books, three of which were on the bestseller list of the New York Times:
- How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, Working Assets, San Francisco, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9779440-0-2
- A Tragic Legacy. How a Good vs.. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, Crown, New York, 2007 ISBN 978-0-307-35419-8
- Great American Hypocrites. Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, Random House, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-307-40802-0
- With Liberty and Justice for Some. How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, Metropolitan, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-8050-9205-9