glenn greenwald is with us from his home in brazil.e will talk about whether he plans to come into the united states. jeremy scahill joins us from los angeles. his film has been nominated for an academy award. about the you talk legality of publishing this information, the way it has been challenged by the administration. in your piece, you have kaitlyn hayden the spokesperson for the national security agency, saying the type of operational detail that in our view should not be published, she said. referring to the questions that you both were asking her. you're a former constitutional lawyer. >> the position of the u.s. government is that it is illegal to publish any kind of classified information that you're not authorized to receive, and it is illegal in their view for the government employee or contractor to leak it without authorization, but their view is is actually legal even if you're a to publish it. they believe that is especially the case of the information pertains to what they call signals intelligence. if you look at the

the ruling comes just days after glenn greenwald and three other journalists won the george polk award for the reporting on the nsa. greenwald said the court ruling makes it clear the top british spy agency was monitoring "the communications of myself, david, and/or the guardian." he said -- in venezuela, right-wing opposition leader leopoldo lÓpez

it's time for a new church committee earlier this month glenn greenwald revealed details of how g c h q the british equivalent of the n.s.a. has a special dirty tricks intelligence gathering group known as the joint threat research intelligence group this week greenwald released more details on that group over at the intercept his new media venture the newly released details include a top secret g c h q presentation it's heads light and how the group cooperating with the n.s.a. would go after infiltrate and in some cases ruin the reputations of specific groups or individuals online and we're not just talking about terrorist masterminds here according to greenwald among the core self identified purposes of j.t. regard to tactics one to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets and to to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse of activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable greenwald goes on to say that to see how extremist these programs are just consider the tactics they boast of using

the media tells them the truth that could organizations like first look media the home of glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill intercept restore their trust in journalism and reuters coverage of climate change is morally ethically and scientifically wrong i'll tell you why in tonight's daily take. it's crude news today is the second year anniversary of the death of trayvon martin but america still seems as far away as ever from solving this problems of gun violence and racism it was only two weeks ago after all that a florida jury declared a mistrial in the first degree murder trial of michael dunn who shot and killed seventeen year old jordan davis dunn shot davis after the two got into an argument to gas station about the volume of davis' music was obviously done instigated the fight but thanks to florida's stand your ground and shoot first law the jury was. unable to convict him of first degree murder even martin's death brought alex to the forefront of american politics and got people talking about the complicated interaction between law race and the media but today stand your ground sh

was a thief for stealing government information at the time greenwald published the leaks he worked for the guardian now he freelances for various news organizations and continues to publish information leaked by his source he maintains that he never sold the documents and has been tweeting up a storm since the accusations he tweeted maybe there is something that has become pretty sick about the d.c. a political culture of the ideal prosecuting journalists is now this mainstream. for more on that of journalists and their sources i spoke earlier to journalist and wiki leaks spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson i first asked him what he thought of the accusation that journalists who publish snowden leaks are committing a crime. believe absolutely ludicrous and nothing new though lou this has been going on escalating for the past three years since we can force with it or explosive revelations it is going to shoot the messenger and in effect to criminalize journalism. it's actually you know great you said that if this were to come from james clapper who lost freeing lied to congress which is

according to report co-authored by glenn greenwald and published intercept.org, britain's top spy agencies eagerly monitored visitors to wikileaks site by collecting their ip addresses in real time. the national security agency added wikileaks founder julian hunting" target list alongside al qaeda suspects. the documents also show the u.s. urged its allies to file criminal charges against assange over the afghan war logs. we will be joined by julian assange and his attorney michael ratner after the headlines. in iraq, a series of deadly car bombings has rocked baghdad and the area south of it today, one day after another wave of explosions killed at least 24 people. monday's blast in the iraqi capital included attacks targeting shiite mosques in the explosion of a bomb-laden minibus. police in thailand have launched an effort to oust demonstrators from protest sites in the capital bangkok. at least three people have died in the resulting clashes. the government of yingluck shinawat has been embroiled in the political crisis since november with opponents wanting her to resign or be replaced

greenwald who lives in brazil hasn't been back to the states since the story broke.onsidering it now? glenn greenwald joins me tonight. >> glenn just to be clear from the start do you expect to be charged if and when you return to the united states? >> i don't know. i mean, if i were going to place a bet i would say it's less than 50%. but at the same time, i think the risk is something greater than trivial. and so that's why when the more senior officials in the obama administration start using language to describe you, that's clearly from the criminal law designed to criminalize your journalism you take it seriously. >> regardless of what might happen, are you willing to take that risk on principle? >> oh, i'm definitely going to take the risk. i refuse as you say on principle to be kept out of my own country because of threats to criminalize me for engaging in journalism, which the first amendment to the united states constitution guarantees that i have the right to do without interference. so i am not going to let a bunch of reactionaries in the u.s. government w

ruleding britain has police acted legally when they detained the partner of glenn greenwald at heathrow airport in london under an anti-terrorism law. david miranda was carrying documents leaked by nsa whistleblower edward snowden when he was detained for nearly nine hours while acknowledging the detention marked "indirect interference with press freedom." the court upheld its legality. the ruling comes just days after

he told politico that investigative journalist glenn greenwald was at the ifs for stealing government information. at that time greenwald published the leaks you work for the guardian now a freelance is from various news organizations and continues to publish information week to buy his source. he maintained that he never sold the documents and has been cleaning out the store since the accusations he greeted me with something that has become pretty sick about the dc political culture and the adl prosecuting journalists is now on this mean streak. for more than a baby on and journalists and their sources i spoke earlier to journalists and wiki link spokesperson christian conscience and should first ask him what he thought of the accusation and journalists who publish known and weeks are committing a crime. the looters. nothing new though it's been going on is getting for the past three years since it would be important. for those revelations. and to issue the messenger and the indian act to criminalize the germans it's an option he told me to say that christians are from james copper w

last august, glenn greenwald's partner was detained for nine hours.after the awards were announced, glenn greenwald tweeted, in the u.k. government, this is known warde jolt -- george fulco for excellence in journalism against terrorism. florida jury has convicted michael dunn on three counts of attempted murder for opening fire on a car of unarmed black teenagers at a gas station during an argument over loud rap music. but the jury deadlocked the most serious charge, first-degree murder, of jordan davis, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial on account. dunn shot the vehicle carrying davis and his friends 10 times. he then fled the scene, went to a hotel with his girlfriend, and ordered a pizza. citing florida's a stand your ground laws, he said he felt threatened by davis, who was unarmed, but the prosecutor said that they never left their vehicle. couldanalysts say dunn face up to 60 years in jail for the murder of the three others. the trial drew comparisons of the george zimmerman trial, who was found not guilty in the killing of trayvon martin

was a thief for stealing government information at the time greenwald published the leaks he worked for the guardian now he freelances for various news organizations and continues to publish information leaked by his source he maintains that he never sold the documents and has been tweeting up a storm since the accusations he tweeted maybe there's something that has become pretty sick about d.c. political culture if the idea of prosecuting journalists is now this mainstream for more on the debate of journalists and their sources i'm joined now by somebody who knows a lot about that wiki leaks spokes person kristinn hrafnsson welcome chris said so we are air here in from government leaders a particularly james clapper the director of national intelligence he has gone as far as calling a journalist that publish snowden leaks his accomplices that the where they used to suggest that reporters are taking part in in a crime what do you think about this accusation. well is that really absolutely ludicrous and nothing new though this has been going on in escalating for the past three years

agencies use online troll tactics to influence the real world outcomes the documents were obtained by greenwald from the u.k.'s n.s.a. counterpart g c h q in its secretive joint threat research intelligence group unit or j trigg c j triggs mission is to destroy the reputation of specific targets by both releasing the falls and damning information about them and manipulating cyber conversations to affect public perception and this program goes way beyond just posting nasty comments guys according to top secret slides which were shared with intelligence agencies in the us australia canada and new zealand j trigger employees tactics such as honey trapping were online affairs are created for blackmail purposes changing the targets photos on social networking sites and writing blogs pretending to be a victim of the target and even emailing and texting and permit to carry messages to the target's friends and colleagues but just stop at sabotaging specific individuals online the unit also employs tactics for taking down and hire companies these tactics include leaking confidential business information

news cell phone metadata can be deadly according to a new report published by journalists glenn greenwald in germany scahill in their new venture the intercept the n.s.a. is using its cell phone tracking technology to help the cia and the u.s. military assassinate suspected terrorists after over a half a year of revelations about the n.s.a. is wide reaching role in the american surveillance state the fact that it helps with drone strikes isn't all that surprising at the same time though greenwald and scales report based on information provided to them by edward snowden as well as a former drone operator paints a chilling portrait of america's remote assassination program. using meditated to map out strikes on terrorism suspects that yours is actually really inaccurate as greenwald and scahill wrote one problem is that targets are increasingly aware of the n.s.a.'s reliance on geo located and it moved to thwart the tactic others are unaware that their mobile phone has been targeted lend their phone with the sim card it to friends children spouses and family members as a result even when th

here is greenwald's response?finitely think it is fair to say there are people who have been inspired by edward snowden's courage and by the great good in virtue that is achieved. >> now, don, he didn't quite expand as to what all other topics will be included in these websites, but he said it will include the topics he's interested in, civil liberties and also criminal justice abuses. so we'll have to see. >> everyone is on the internet now and people, many of us don't want our information being -- even though we know it's happening, we don't want our information out there. the people on social media protest these programs in the past. have you heard anything? >> we checked it out. there's another one expected this tuesday called the day we fight against mass surveillance. pretty much what you can expect is there will be banners on thousands of websites. they are going to say, please support the u.s. freedom act. and it is pretty much a law that would limit the collection and use of information. so be on the look

tonight a conversation with robert greenwald about his new documentary and first-hand -- about first-hand interviews and as well as the innocent bystanders who survive the attacks. then we will turn to a conversation with one of the great singers, dianne reeves. she went back into the recording studio last week and has just released a new project called "beautiful life." us. e glad you joined ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: documentarian robert greenwald has never been afraid to tackle difficult subjects. his latest is called "unmanned: america's drone wars" and it challenges the use of drone warfare, which is often attacked for collateral damage. [speaking foreign language] >> you have done it again, my friend. good to have you back on. i suspect we are about to find out that what you still appreciate is being able to see project that bring humanity of the subject matter into full view. what i love about your work is you always find a way to take us right to the humanity of the character. this conversation about drone is always had

glenn greenwald should be prosecuted i understood exactly what he was saying that he comes out he was a former lieutenant general he comes out of this military culture which detests the press and has always made war on an independent press. their version of journalism are all the little sort of lackeys who sit through their press conferences and follow them around and write sort of glowing tribute to their heroism or whatever they're directed to write in press pools but actual journalism is something that within the military culture they're deeply hostile to. the triumph of military values again is symptomatic of a civilization in decline. the rigidity celebration of hyper masculinity the lack of empathy the belief that every problem should be dealt with by force both internationally and domestically. militaristic hypermasculine regimes speak exclusively in the language of force and then you see within popular culture subsequently a celebration of those hyper masculine military values and better not enough combat to tell you that those values are quite useful in a firefight but they w

the ruling comes just days after glenn greenwald and three other journalists won the george polk award for the reporting on the nsa. greenwald said the court ruling makes it clear the top british spy agency was monitoring "the communications of myself, david, and/or the guardian." he said -- in venezuela, right-wing opposition leader leopoldo lÓpez has turned himself into the national guard after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest last week, accusing him of inciting deadly clashes. protests by opponents of maduro left of the street people dead last week. his supporters and opponents held rival rallies tuesday in the capital caracas. maduro has accused the u.s. of backing the unrest and expelled three u.s. diplomats. white house press secretary jay carney denied the claims. >> we have seen many times the venezuelan government tries to distract from its own actions by blaming the u.s. or other members of the international community for events inside venezuela. these efforts reflect a lack of seriousness on the part of venezuelan government to deal with the grave situation of fac

national security is also a result of journalists like glenn greenwald like jeremy scale people who are dealing with these documents as you were talking about earlier and he was talking to james komi the director of the f.b.i. trying to criminalize journalism itself as quote a newspaper reporter for fill in the blank and i sell stolen material is that legal because i'm a newspaper reporter. if you're a newspaper reporter and you're hocking stolen jewelry it's still a crime and if i'm a hocking stolen classified material that are not legally in the possession of for personal gain and profit is that not a crime. i think that's a harder question because it involves a news gathering function could have first amendment implications that's something that probably better answered by the department of justice those pesky first amendment implications you know the chairman of the house intelligence committee just completely disregarding the constitution and press freedoms believable and sam of course from the media's not talking about toothpaste bombs or trying to link snowden into this whole thi

denies some of the most serious accusations coming out from glenn greenwald's article the n.s.a.tells our teeth quote any allegation that the n.s.a. relies on foreign partners to circumvent u.s. law is absolutely false the national security agency does not ask its foreign partners to undertake any intelligence activity that the u.s. government would lead. would be legally prohibited from undertaking itself and went on to say that the agency complies with u.s. attorney general procedures to protect privacy rights this is just the latest chapter in the n.s.a. surveillance scandal that keeps getting more convoluted. while some con kansas lawmakers are trying to stall anti gay legislation from being passed into law the bill h.r. two four five three would offer legal protection to individuals businesses and government employees who refuse to serve homosexuals if they have religious beliefs opposing same sex marriage the bill passed the republican controlled house in a seventy two to forty nine vote last wednesday and is now headed to the senate judiciary committee however our team has

glen greenwald has a new gig.d the intercept, an online news site whose short-term mission is to provide a platform on the documents previously provided by nsa whistle blower, edward snowden. the first installment is out. the article outlines how the nsa tracks terrorists overseas so the government can call them by using drones. interesting in light of barbara starr's reporter. brian is here to talk more. brian, you interviewed greenwald on your show, "reliable sources" telling us other sources would come forward and spill secrets thanks to snowden. >> i think it is fair to say that there are people who have been inspired by edward snowden's courage and by the great good and virtue that it has achieved. i think there were people before edward snowden like chelsea manning and thomas drake and before that dan yelsburg. i think snowden was inspired by them and i believe there will be other sources inside the government that see extreme wrongdoing that were inspired by snowden as well. >> that makes you wonder what th

journalist glen greenwald joins me from rio de janeiro. thank you for being here. i'm not sure if i can hear glen but i think you can hear me. i'm going to try to ask him my first question. it involves your new website. will you be revealing new information about the surveillance stories on the site? >> sure. there's a lot more really significant stories about to reveal as we've said for quite some time that continues to be true, and a big part of why this appeals to us so much, namely, the opportunity to build a new website, a new ya outlet really, is to continue aggressively reporting on these materials that have informed democratic debates around the world. >>> are all of the stories you'll be publishing starting this week based on the snowden documents or have new source comes forward? >> well, i can't really talk about the stories until they're published including their base es, but i would say just in general that before the snowden reporting began, one of the recognitions i think on the part of the american media was that the obama administration has been pa

then in late 2012 he penned an e-mail to glen greenwald. glen is a very busy guy.as chat windows up and he didn't respond. there were several false starts before snowden finally got through to glen greenwald and he and a filmmaker and a colleague flew out to hong kong to meet him not really knowing who he was, if he was kind of a fake or the real deal. and of course he was the real deal. >> luke harding, it is a fascinating read what i've read so far. "the snowden files -- the inside story of the world's most wanted man." talks about him as a teenager and how he became who he is today. luke, thank you so much. >>> thanks, victor. next, a cheerleader -- you've got to see this -- sinks an unbelievable half-court basketball shot. we'll show it to you. the quiet. [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] on the first day you take it. she loves a lot of it's what you love ab

at a time when glenn greenwald and myself about six months ago were talking with our colleague about organization that would have inherently adversarial posture towards the stage when he came to violations of the first amendment and fourth amendment of the constitution, pierre omidyar reached out to glenn greenwald. ofsaid, i'm thinking starting a news organization. would you guys want to collaborate in some way? he did not envision building a news organization. he wanted us to collaborate. glenn and i were in rio at the time and we said, let's pitch canre on this idea that we work with them. at first we were talking about building this much broader picture news organization with sports and entertainment and politics and national security reporting. what pierre and his team come up with a brilliant idea, that pierre will create several digital magazines that will each be led by seasoned reporters or journalists in that area, and they will build infrastructure around those individuals. "the intercept" is the first launched.pierre has >> you have got a movie, "dirty wars," nominated fo

glenn greenwald in brazil, to interview him on the which was a curious experience.ack at my home in england, i was writing critically about the the damage that these revelations had done to silicon valley. , and asrking off-line you say, the text began deleting . i thought, my goodness, what is going on? this happened four or five times. jokingly, i would leave notes to this mysterious reader. colleaguese of my mentioned this in a newspaper interview in germany, and then it stopped. i mention this to lay out the facts of what was another curious episode in an already surreal tale. an american who approached you want you are in brazil. >> that is right. it was quite funny in a way. lenn at a hotel by the seafront. we had to change locations at times because it was clear that there were people trying to eavesdrop in our conversations, and we ended up in a business suite, where he could lock the doors. subsequently, at my hotel, i was accosted in the lobby by somebody who looked like they were straight out of caa central -- cia, military haircut central casting, milita

on monday, i spoke with glenn greenwald recently launched the intercept.org with jimmy scahill and lauraitras. i asked him about the initial associated press article that broke the story. you can go to democracynow.org to hear what glenn responded. i think actually we have it for you now. >> the very idea that the u.s. government suspects an american citizen, not having already engaged in crimes, but of planning to do so -- it is like a pre-crime framework for the u.s. government tries to guess at who will engage in crimes in the future and then treat them as a criminal. not just treat them as a criminal, but declare them guilty in secret proceedings not involving any court, but by the decree of the president of the united states to literally declare the person guilty and oppose the death penalty, and then go out and carry out the execution. just like they did with anwar khan.aki and samir no american should accept the ideas the president of the united states has the power to order american citizens killed, not on the battlefield or anywhere else that is in a war zone, but simply on the

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i understand that glenn greenwald has demanded an agreement to every newspaper source that they checkr stories with nsa for sensitive material. now, when mr. clapper -- i'm baker says over and over that there has been great damage here, i ask him how he knows that? based on what? possibly he is still reading classified material as a consultant, or maybe not. my guess is he is just that -- excepting at face value the statements of mr. clapper or others. why would you do that? i have two questions for mr. baker, which are both susceptible of yes or no questions, they are short, and i hope you will not filibuster. he was general counsel at nsa in 9/11, when before the nsa was observing what they called the first amendment, -- commandment, thou shall not spy on americans, listen to americans, or collect material without an individual court order with probable cause, and the observed that. years years of their 70 in existence they were within the law, not earlier under johnson or nexen, and not later, so the questions are, mr. baker might have an idealized picture havingthis works for expe