glenn greenwald?> immediately after that hearing, politico asked mike rogers from another there was any doubt anyway, but specifically who were you thinking about when you are engaged in that colloquy in he said, glenn greenwald. the headlines in politico and huffington post and many other places was, house intelligence committee chairman glenn greenwald of being a thief and a fence and engaging in felonies. so when you have those kinds of accusations being made by people who are powerful in washington, you take them seriously. the thing about it is, even if the threats don't and that manifesting in terms of arrest, it creates this climate that is intended to be created for journalists -- where journalists have to be afraid that the journalism they're doing that is supposed to be protected by the first amendment can be subjected to arresting and charging you with crimes in a federal court system that has been extreme the deferential to the us government post-9/11 era. greenwald, hisnn new book release

many of us were concerned about an id person going wrong and having devastating consequences. >> glenn greenwald has been given journalist awards, including the pulitzer prize. do you think there's value in the stories he's written. >> i see more safely agrandizement than value. glenn is outstanding at self-promotion. walter durante, the lead correspondent who denied stalin's terrible crimes pon pulitzer prize's as well. >> john sh-ipped ler, good to see you. >> there's international uproar over the n.s.a. lacks. a freeze frame comes from berlin, they are upset with the n.s.a. spy programme. they are wanting the german government to investigate the n.s.a. allegations. "borderland" is >> announcer: coming up on "beyond "borderland"", these are people coming to work with us, not against us, but with us. >> if you are an ilimmigrant, you are -- illegal immigrant, you are essentially committing a crime. >> we need a system that works. >> this is a business. these migrants through this process are being exploited.

glenn greenwald's store showed the u.s. government forced verizon to hand over phone records of millions of americans. it was a first of a torrent of reactions, the second involved a program called prism. president obama defended the programs immediately. he said su can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. snowden went public soon after. i have no intention of hiding who i am because i know i have done nothing wrong. the u.s. soon filed espionage charges against snowden and tried to have him extradited from hong kong. the pace of the leaks slowed but they didn't stop. thanks to the or ongoing collaboration between snowden and greenwald. a report published by the new york times the guardian and der spiegel said that the u.s. spied on the united nations, germfully and other allies. more details about how the nsa cooperates with allies and corporations. greenwald's reporting earned a pulitzer price for public service this year. the prize was given to the new york times and the guardian f

glenn greenwald?of all the statements that are then made by the government that have been false, i think that one is the most to liberally and starkly false. 2005 thata scandal in the bush a administration was used talking on the telephone calls of americans without obtaining warrants from the court. congress, a bipartisan congress, supported by president obama, then senator obama, enacted a new law in 2008 fisa amendments act for the purpose to legalize the essence of the bush program. what the law said was the nsa has the power to listen in on the telephone conversations of americans were read their e-mails without a warrant, without a warrant whenever they're speaking to a foreign national. so all the time the nsa listens to the telephone calls of americans were read their e-mails without going and getting a warrant, completely contrary to what president obama said, and the others active it is as well, the pfizer court is a well-known joke. it was created in the mid-1970's after the church committe

john welcome. >> great to be here john. >> give me a reaction what you just heard from glenn greenwald>> glenn's a very smart guy who is very good at self-promotion. i heard a lot of statements that ranged from disingenuous to simply untrue frankly. >> give me a few of them. >> i've got a lot. first of all the statement that no one's been harmed by these massive leaks, unprecedented leaks. that's simply untrue. you had a segment on how al qaeda why terrorists are making good use, that's got intelligent consequence. badly impacted by leaks, including compromise of personal information i know some of them. when glenn says the u.s. government hasn't talked about it, of course they're not going to talk about it. it's classified. it's highly miss stating, no negative impact. i know glenn wants to be hero of the story. that's fine. perhaps there is some good coming out of the story, claiming no down side -- >> what good do you think would come out? >> if we actually engaged had a truly global debate about what degree of internet certifying we want, i'd highly recognize that, but with the und

top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more poydras the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas you heard me right now this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so mol get allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas so more get is being employed in one other country that we know of however corny to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fatalities. more news from around the world in brief now seventeen people have reportedly been killed in a nigerian village of time carried out by the local islamist group boko around the village of the other gono is situated in the country's north east and is not far from the region where extremist had not some two hundred schoolgirls a month ago that time comes a day afte

glenn greenwald and some of his colleagues published this story and alleging that the u.s. were intercepting recording and archiving pretty much every move all phone call on the island nation of the bahamas and they went on in the article to say that there were similar things taking place in four of the countries and they named three of them mexico the philippines and kenya they withheld the name of that final country because they said there were serious concerns that it could put lives at risk now wiki leaks took to their twitter account to slam that this decision asking when did true published information ever harm innocent now this twitter spat ensued remember that wiki leaks is widely believed to be run by julian a songe himself glenn greenwald has said that the n.s.a. had aggressively urged them to suppress the names of the countries which they've refused but in this case of this one country there was a genuine belief that harm could be caused wiki leaks would not responding well to that and then we saw this bombshell dropped which was that they said that they would re

his new story with glenn greenwald and laura poitras is "data pirates of the caribbean." talk about your findings. summarize them step-by-step. >> our story details the nsa program called mystic, first detailed in a washington post story. it was developed by the nsa in 2009. it is variously sponsored through a number of subprograms which are controlled by the nsa's commercial solution center, which works with their secret partners. the nsa would not be able to function without their corporate partners that they rely on to gain access to communications networks. it is also cosponsored by the cia and the drug enforcement

please welcome glenn greenwald. been waiting for this for a long time. >> good, good. >> stephen: i got my knives out for you, my man. >> ready. >> stephen: welcome to the lion's den. all right, let's explain to people who love america who you are. author of three best selling book, you've written forth "new york times", l.a. times and the guardian where you are reporting on the nsa scandal and the ed snowden leak. just won the pulitzer prize for public service. (applause) and a post award for national security reporting. your new book is called no place to hide, edward snowden, the nsa and the-- surveillance state, are you looking for a place to hide? >> i'm in the. >> stephen: really? >> but if i were, there would be no one in this surveillance state, the title actually comes from frank church who investigated the surveillance state in the mid 70s and found something nobody knew which is that the nsa was collecting enormous amounts of communications. and what he said was this is an extraordinarily dangerous machin

. >> edward snowden may go down as the most famous whistleblower oof our time, and glenn greenwald has a new book. >> they are a system of ubiquitous, all forms of communication between everybody on the planet. >> reporter: this never-before-seen power point slide from the nsa says sniff it all, know it all, collect it all. and with this form, greenwald says any employee can search a giant database. >> all they need to do is enter an e-mail address, click a justification from a pulldown menu that allows them to do it even hit search. they've been able to get into skype video chats, even e-mails sent by people using wifi on an airplane. >> the mindset of the nsa is that there should never be a place on the planet that you can go where you are able to evade their surveillance net.

which has reported on its own batch of snowden documents and has a reporting relationship with glenn greenwald. >> when it comes to specific stories about the specific collection programs, about specific targets, these aren't decided by me. these are decided by newspapers. >> you see the part of this and for a lay audience looking on,

glenn greenwald, the journalist hind the leak of national security secrets say the paper's incoming executive a practice of journal subservient to the american state, greenwald is out with a new book about edward snowden and the leaked nsa documents and this week i asked him several questions that were sent to us by our viewers. >> we've got a couple of them. one in regards to russia. and this is from gary in honolulu. and he says is mr. snowden expressed his opinions feeling his life in russia in light of mr. putin's annexation in crimea, thugs in eastern ukraine, constraints on the media in russia, et cetera? >> i always find that a very bizarre question, in part because he didn't choose to be in russia. more so because people seek asylum in the united states by the thousands every year. i've never heard anyone ask them, how do you consider, that continues to imprison people without charges for over a decade in gawm becaus guantanam. the point of seeking credit asylum is to seek protection from home. to be accountable for its abuses. but i 30 the point of why he's there is he is forced to b

no such agency, and now the joke is that it stands for not secret anymore. >> i will talk to glenn greenwald about the n-s-a, spying and edward snowden you can see the interview tomorrow night at 8:30 eastern, 5:30 pacific and we want to hear from you send questions you would like to ask glenn greenwald by using the hashtag askgreenwald or go to our website at 'al jazeera dot com slash ask john we plan to use some of your questions >>> a fast moving wildfire forcing the evacuation of homes in san diego tonight. it has already burned 700 acres, and several structures are now threatened by flames. these are live pictures of that fire. very little of that wildfire has been contained, and the fire is fueled by gusting winds and unusually high temperatures. we'll have more on that fire at 11:00 eastern tonight. let's go to washington, and joie chen has what's on the top of the hour. >> good evening, john. we continue our series, making babies, with the look at the darker side of international surrogacy. our investigation finds would be parents who suspect they have been scammed. it's hard to trac

in a top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more poydras the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas so you heard me right now this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so mall get and allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas get has been employed in one other country that we know of however according to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fatalities. well let's take a look at what else is happening in the world two powerful explosions have rocked a busy bus terminal a crowded markets in nigeria central city of jos officials are now saying at least one hundred eighteen people looking killed and many more injured are great makes it to board behind the attack if it comes amid a bombing campaign by the terro

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journalist glenn greenwald on n.s.a. surveillance. controversial new rules for how the internet should work. >> ifill: veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki was in the hot seat on capitol hill today. facing tough questions from lawmakers investigating allegations that veterans may have died while awaiting treatment at a v.a. hospital in phoenix. and some believe there is even more to the story. >> any allegation, any adverse incident like this, makes me mad as hell. >> reporter: veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki told a senate panel that he was angered and saddened by reports of delayed treatment and preventable deaths at v.a. hospitals. shinseki appeared to defend his agency against accusations that a v.a. hospital in phoenix falsified scheduling reports and that up to 40 veterans died awaiting treatment. he is facing mounting calls for his resignation. >> if any allegations are true, they are completely unacceptable if any are substantiated by the inspector general, we will act. >> ifill: later in the hearing, acting inspec

earlier this week glenn greenwald revealed that the n.s.a. had been monitoring all the domestic and international phone calls of two countries one of those countries he said was the bahamas but he refused to name the second country he said that it could lead to the loss of innocent lives now there was also some speculation that he was perhaps under pressure to keep that second country a secret none of that pleased rival whistleblower julian assange blasted greenwald on twitter and accused him of censoring at the request of the us government he promised to reveal that second country himself and lo and behold he's carried out that promise and has announced through the wiki leaks website that is it is indeed afghanistan that is the target of the n.s.a.'s some will get program which is a mass mobile phone spying program in the way it works is that it sort of hoovers up entire conversations that are taking place throughout the country and it's actually different to the way that other n.s.a. surveillance programs work that we've heard of before tha

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here is glenn greenwald. good evening.u with us. >> good to be with you, thanks. >> it's very interesting. just got through some of the beginnings of your story here but you talk about what it was like when he first reached out to you and you developed a reputation someone interested in uncovering these kinds of stories, you kept it at arm's length because you have a lot of stories that are crazy. >> people contact you and say i have a huge story for you and unless they give you something, you tend to be prioritizing because 99% of the time it's crazy or something worse. that's all that happened, we had a hard time communicating. in the beginning, he wanted me to use extradition knowing the nsa can listen between journalists and sources. >> it's real like like a spy novel. he talks and signs everything another name and you go to hong kong and meet with him. did you have reservations? you've been hit with a boat load of criticism for uncovering national security secrets that the top echelons say put us in great danger. >> t

. >> snowden turned over the secret documents to glenn greenwald a lawyer turned journalist and lauraras, a documentary filmmaker both of whom traveled to russia for our interview. in his recently published book "no place to hide" greenwald describes that moment he first met snowden in hong kong. >> what did you make of him? >> the initial impression was one of extreme confusion. because i was expecting to meet somebody in his 60s or 70s, very senior. i knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in hong kong. >> it was a really intimidating moment. you know, it was the most real point of no return because the minute you start talking to a journalist as an intelligence officer, on camera, there's really no going back from that. that's where it all comes together. >> also, you had this tangible evidence. in effect he was saying to you if i wasn't legit, where else would i have gotten this? >> right. that was certainly a good start to establishing his credibility and his authenticity was the fact he was able to produce many thousands of documents from the most secretive agency of

documents released by glenn greenwald show that the u.s. has been gauged the doing just that in doing exactly would be ques is the chinese of doing glenn greenwald there's published documents and photos showing how the n.s.a. routinely receives or intercept routers servers and other computer network devices being exported from the united states before they're delivered to the international customers they agency then implants back door surveillance tools we packages the devices with factory seal and sends them on this allows the n.s.a. to gain access to entire networks and all of their users while among other devices the agency intercepts and tempers with routers and service manufactured by cisco to direct large amounts of your net traffic to the n.s.a. repository glenn greenwald also writes there is no evidence in the documents that cisco is aware of or condoned these interceptions he also writes that the methods serve all agendas economic diplomatic military and yet despite revelations that the u.s. has never shied away from spying on anyb

[applause] booktv continues with glenn greenwald. he talks about his meetings with and meetings with nsa contractor edward snowden in hong kong the revelations about nsa spying that mr. snowden revealed in the reaction that the u.s. media when the story broke. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. i am bradley graham coe order of politics and prose along with my wife in muscatine and on behalf of the entire staff and all the staff here at sixth and i i would like to welcome you. we are always delighted to partner with six and i and co-sponsor author talks in this truly marvelous building. esther forbes who is the executive director of six and i and her organization have done a traffic job establishing this place as a vibrant cultural center now celebrating its tenth anniversary. we are looking forward to continuincontinuin g our great partnership with them. as a bookstore owner i'm often asked by writers for it by somehow to promote a book after it's been published. i don't think i have ever suggested going out and w

the reporters would like nothing more than to find out that they are on the list that glenn greenwald -- >> can i go back to one thing you said, bob? they usually find out by the media. i disagree with that. this president seems to find this out with the media. he's willing to admit that. i guess they are okay with looking uninformed and incompetent, that's fine with them, kim also -- adds to. after a couple of months, you say that was republican politics. she did forget one, two years later, dude, that was two years ago. >> va is different but that's why they run the scandal manual over and over again. >> reagan's comments were i read about it in the newspaper when it comes to iran contra. >> what are those four or five scandals? my point is in five years, you got five real legitimate scandals going on and they seem to find out about it in the news. >> if we switch to our last topic for this block, which is a little bit along those lines, it's the veterans affairs scandal -- i don't like to call it that, but that's what it's being referred to. one of things they have said we found ou

today journalists glenn greenwald released more in his book "no place to hide." because of the edward snowden leaks the public knows more about the n.s.a. than it ever has. we spoke to james ban forked, an outside expert. >> reporter: before edward snowden was born james bam ford was investigating the national security agency. his book "the puzzle palace", was the first of three books on the n.s.a., and the first look an outsider got on the secret spy agency. bam ford warned: . >> the prediction was overlooked bus the n.s.a. was largely unknown. it was created in 1932 with a specific mission - to break codes and intercept soviet communications. after the cold war it no longer existed and its knighted was in issue. bam ford said everything changed. the attitude is collect everything, everything everywhere at all times. >> a problem was that the n.s.a. focussed on terrorism. >> in reality, it was never dined for that and is not good at doing that. all those attacks the n.s.a. found out about memory news broadcasts on the television, not by intelligence. >> despite

. >> glenn greenwald was planning a trip to hong kong to meet an anonymous source -- source.et source turned out to national security contractor edward snowden. they created shock in the u.s. and abroad. he describes his collaboration and what he thinks of the a year ago, the name of edward snowden was unknown. did you ever dream that revealing the story of u.s. government surveillance would have such an impact? >> there was a time where i started to understand the scope of the archive. union thinking about the likely dreame, we really didn't that it would be this sustained global debate. >> and he almost passed on the entire story. to me inld only speak an unencrypted environment. quiterospect, he was rational but unwilling to share anything about it he had or what he was. they were very vague missives asking me to install sophisticated programs with out him sharing something with me. i did almost move on from the story. someoneere expecting taking a huge risk. to hugew he had access numbers of very sensitive documents. i also spent a long time talking to him online and his

. >> ifill: and margaret warner sits down with glenn greenwald.ournalist at the center of the national security leaks that revealed the scope of u.s. spying.

you're a david and you're watching r t america it's been almost a year now since journalist grand glenn greenwald excuse me wrote the first story revealing leaked documents from edward snowden since then there have been countless revelations both large and small about an effort for a base of surveillance network today greenwald is giving his own account of how the former n.s.a. whistleblower was able to release thousands of classified documents on a powerful intelligence community all while evading authorities it's all laid out in greenwald new book called no place to hide and coinciding with the book's release greenwald has released a trove of new n.s.a. documents artie's sam sachs has more. among the new n.s.a. documents revealed today by journalist glenn greenwald is this very telling slide it's from two thousand and eleven explicitly confirming that the n.s.a. and its partners are in the game of collecting it all and it speaks to what snowden in the journalist he's worked with have been warning of all along and out of control spy agency with unbelievable tools that pose a threat to privacy ar

his new story with glenn greenwald and laura poitras is "data pirates of the caribbean."k about your findings. summarize them step-by-step. >> our story details the nsa program called mystic, first detailed in a washington post story. it was developed by the nsa in 2009. it is variously sponsored through a number of subprograms which are controlled by the nsa's commercial solution center, which works with their secret partners. the nsa would not be able to function without their corporate partners that they rely on to gain access to communications networks. it is also cosponsored by the cia and the drug enforcement administration. as you mentioned, this program has gained access in mexico, kenya, the philippines, bahamas, and one of the country that the intercept is not naming at this time. >> is the government telling you not to name them? >> this is a conversation that we had four weeks as we have reported the story, trying to determine whether or not it was responsible to name the country. the nsa and government did not want us to name any of the countries. we named fo

. >>> glenn greenwald as been the jourptist at -- journalist at the forefront of reporting edward snowden's leaks. his life has been joined into his debate. here is a sneak preview of his conversation with john seigenthaler. >> it was like living in a spy film, essentially. we knew a couple of things that this was certainly the biggest leak in national security history, that if the u.s. government found out what it was that he was doing, that they would take extreme measures to put a stop to it one way or the other. we didn't know much else. i was shocked by what he looked like. i spent weeks talking to him. i knew he had access to top secret material, and pretty sophisticated insight. i knew that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison. i assumed that he was in his '60s or 70s. >> in is from gary in honolulu and said he expressed his climb in crimea, in support of pro-russian thugs and constraints on the media - people seek asylum in the united states, and i never heard any of those ask those people "how do you feel about seeking an asylum that invaded or destroyed a countr

i'm pleased to have glenn greenwald at this table for the first time. welcome.et's start with the title, "no place to hide." comes from frank church? >> the famous church committee of the mid-1970's that discovered when surveillance apparatus were in the government without transparency or oversight, it would inevitably be abused. nobody knew that this had been amassed and the mandate of the nsa was never talked about domestically. just the existence is so dangerous because if it were ever turned up against the american people, there would be no place to hide. it has come to be that the nsa does directed at the american foreign population and abroad. >> do you believe these disclosures have changed the nsa? >> they've certainly change the debate surrounding the nsa. i believe they will change the authority the nsa has as a result of congress. i think it made the nsa, for the first time since at least 9/11, question whether on not just because they have the capability to do something it means they ought to. >> do you believe it's changed the attitude of the presid

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that spring, glenn greenwald arrived in new york to deliver a speech. >> and we met that night in my hotel, in the lobby. and she showed me these emails that she had been exchanging with this person who was claiming that he was a national security state insider with access to very sensitive information that he believed to be very incriminating, and stated very definitively that he wanted to turn it over to her and to me. >> narrator: greenwald decided to join poitras. >> we all knew that this was incredibly risky and uncertain, but the story had to be reported. >> narrator: in june, poitras and greenwald headed to the airport. >> i think they're kind of quite excited, but there's also a sort of feeling that maybe this is just the most terrific hoax. >> narrator: they were joined by ewen macaskill, a veteran guardian reporter. >> at the time, i didn't think it was for real, didn't take it that seriously, and thought it was a slightly obscure story. >> narrator: once they were finally airborne, poitras thought it was safe to share with greenwald something the source had securely sent t