Tag Archives: Glenn Greenwald

Has The Intercept been intercepted?

Last week, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras flew to New York City, to accept a George Polk award for journalism, along with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and The Washington Post’s Barton Gellman (here). Greenwald and Poitras went through JFK Airport, … Continue reading

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Vulgus vult decipi

Last October, Glenn Greenwald announced that he was going to stop writing for the Guardian newspaper; this, after spending the summer reporting the Snowden revelations. To quote Greenwald: “As many of you know, I’m leaving the Guardian in order to … Continue reading

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Habeas Corpus, what’s that?

Last year, US District Judge Katherine Forrest made a final ruling that Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – which allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial – was unconstitutional and therefore unlawful. Government … Continue reading

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Syria

Yesterday, UK politicians voted against military intervention in the Syria conflict, although it was a close call: 272 votes for military action, 285 against. It’s the first time in modern history that MPs have voted against a Prime Minister’s call … Continue reading

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Top notch stuff, Rusbridger

The Guardian Editor, Alan Rusbridger, published a quite extraordinary piece last night. Below the line in the reader comments section I called the article ‘a quite substantial piece of history’. Another commentator described what I’d said as hyperbole, so let … Continue reading

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Rule, Britannia

Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport while transiting from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Miranda is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who’s breaking the Edward Snowden stories. It seems certain … Continue reading

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Sheep, Blind Mice and Ostriches

The Guardian ran a piece today about the Lavabit secure e-mail service, which has just been shut down by its owner, Ladar Levison, who said that he wouldn’t be “complicit in crimes against the American people” (here); ie, he wouldn’t … Continue reading

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A state within a state and the Fourth Estate

Today, Greenwald and the Guardian went for the jugular of the New York Times (here) and Washington Post (here), showing that they have openly lied about the Edward Snowden affair and accusing them of being mouthpieces of the US Government. … Continue reading

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We’re all Winston Smiths now

Over this last week, what with various Orwell quotes in newspaper comment sections, I must have read 1984 from cover to cover. On the otherhand, many readers seem to think that the American National Security Agency (NSA) scandal only involves … Continue reading

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A long, dark night of the soul

I have the greatest respect for Glenn Greenwald, but the story he broke this week was not really news (here). It’s been widely known for a long time now that just about all electronic communication is recorded by the US … Continue reading

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