we also have marty baron here as well. [inaudible] >> sorry, the mic is not on. >> can you hear me now? >> go ahead. >> i actually have three questions. i guess they are all for barton gellman. one is, do you wear a bow to safety because of what you know, either from terrorists because they know you have all this information, or from nsa? second question is, what do you think should happen to mr. snowden? and the third one is, do you and reporters at the guardian consult with one another? how do i want to divulge in terms of security issues? >> no, i don't fear for my personal safety. i worry a lot that, i have good evidence that there are actors, usually unknown, were trying to get into my material digitally. i mean, i cannot feel my entire life off of the internet and put something on the network and somebody topic and into. i don't put secret stuff there. but i got a warning from google that a state sponsored hacker was attempted to cover cover my's computer and my account. google then won't tell you who's doing it on w

baron wassence, marty appointed to the story. what happened to lead to the introduction of the story to the post the acceptance of the of the story and the decision to carry it forward? >> it is not obvious from the coverage that i am not a washington post employee. i'm on contract now after having worked here 21 years. i left in 2010. over the course of the first half of 2013, i developed a correspondence with the man i later learned to be edward snowden and received documents from him. i knew that there was really only one place to do the story for me. theas going to require resources and decades of collective experience that are here, and the mutual trust the people i had worked with for a long time. fundamentally, it was going to need big, hard risky decisions to be made by the boss. the boss is the one guy i did not know at all. i walked into her room after asking for a meeting and figured out who marty was by a process of elimination. he is the managing editor. i know him. i figured this guy must be marty. i asked him -- ou

ellen nakashima, ashkan soltani and greg timberg for really letting us walk through -- and also to marty baron who is a huge supporter of what was an enormous, difficult, hard and you saw the nuts and bolts of how difficult this reporting was over the last year and letting barton and ashkan and ellen and walking us through what their journeys have been like. thank you again. [applause] >> and some news about new york congressman michael grimm from "the washington post." that he has been taken into custody facing federal charges, a 0-count indictment -- 20-count indictment against him connected to a restaurant he opened before entering congress and alleging that the restaurant hid more than a million dollars in tax receipts from local and federal tax officials while also paying workers hundreds of thousands of dollars off the books. now, aides say that house speaker john boehner has not spoken to congressman grimm about the indictment. neither the speaker, nor majority leader, eric cantor of virginia, have commented on his political future. we'll keep you posted with any updates on the story on

in thanking bart gellman, ellen nakashima, ashkan .oltani, and craig timberg [applause] also to marty baron who introduced the panel and was a huge supporter of how difficult the reporting was over the last for letting us walk through and get a sense of what their journey has been like. thank you again. [applause] look at our primetime schedule on the c-span networks. starting at 8:00 eastern, we will bring you supreme court oral arguments and attorney remarks in the case to decide whether the aereo company has the right to retransmit programming without copyright fees. , american history tv with a conference held by american historians. some independent scientists anded at monsanto's corn found the gene normally silent was switched on. that produces an allergen. you may have an allergic reaction. someone you know may die from eating the corn genetically engineered and not labeled as containing in allergen. the process created a switch on of the dormant gene and the change of 43 others, as well as changes in the shape of proteins. soy has a -- monsanto sevenfold increase in allergens. this

promise coming up next it's a breaking the set with having marty. baron skill involved or they do dumb things and the people in the middle are always suffering so if they suspend anything it's the little guy that usually gets punished and the people who run government isn't the people who run big businesses and have the most if they seem to do ok on this. united states is in complete confusion about what it wants in the middle east anymore our main ships are with israel and saudi arabia both powers. have wanted military leadership in egypt and that's been a driving force in this arab spring and america has fall in line with what the arab spring did he's bringing to. the ambiguous and indeed hypocritical relationship between western governments and the arab world on america's still funding the military and he said to me. on the. plane. the try to clear. up people are going to be. much more efficient. not me no no law no weapon. of my own life but hey. let's think this time. he says he goes to meet women. sometimes for nothing which. is so nice and simple.