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Glenn Greenwald: US Corporate Media is "Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete" – Video

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Glenn Greenwald reflects on the Pulitzer Prize, adversarial journalism and the corporate media #39;s response to his reporting on Edward Snowden #39;s leaked National Security Agency documents. "We...

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Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden – Video

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Glenn Greenwald tells the inside story of meeting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras were the journalists who first met Snowden in...

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Glenn Greenwald gives dramatic insider details about how he stumbled on what is perhaps the biggest leak of American intelligence in history, information he received from former NSA contractor...

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May 15, 2014

People wear masks with pictures of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden during the testimonial of Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who first published the documents leaked by Snowden, before a Brazilian Congressional committee on NSA's surveillance programmes, in Brasilia in this August 6, 2013 file photo. Reuters pic, May 15, 2014.Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to the new book by journalist Glenn Greenwald about fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the studio said yesterday.

James Bond franchise producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will make the movie version of "No Place to Hide", described as "a political film that will resonate with today's moviegoers".

Snowden's "explosive revelations have raised important questions about the role of government in protecting its citizens and the balance between national security and personal freedom," said Doug Belgrad, head of Columbia Pictures, a Sony division.

"We are extremely proud that Michael, Barbara and Glenn chose Sony to bring this riveting story to the big screen, and believe that Glenn's account of this incredible international event will make for a gripping and unforgettable film."

Greenwald, the journalist who broke the Snowden story for Britain's Guardian newspaper, said the producers "have a successful track record of making thoughtful and nuanced true-life stories that audiences want to see.

"Growing up, I was heavily influenced by political films, and am excited about the opportunity to be part of a political film that will resonate with today's moviegoers," he added.

Greenwald, recounting last year's discussions in Hong Kong with Snowden when he decided to reveal his identity, said the ex-National Security Agency contractor appeared to be "profoundly at peace" with his decision to leak documents.

"Snowden had seemed unbothered" by the prospect of facing US prosecution for releasing the classified materials, Greenwald wrote in excerpts from his book published by the Guardian earlier this week.

The book, subtitled "Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State", is being released in Britain by Hamish Hamilton and in the United States by Metropolitan Books. AFP, May 15, 2014.

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Greenwald On NSA Leaks: ‘We’ve Erred On The Side Of Excess Caution’

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hide captionReporter Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters in Hong Kong on June 10, 2013, just days after publishing a series of reports about the NSA's mass surveillance programs.

Reporter Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters in Hong Kong on June 10, 2013, just days after publishing a series of reports about the NSA's mass surveillance programs.

When Edward Snowden was ready to leak the classified documents he'd stolen from the National Security Agency, the first journalist he contacted was Glenn Greenwald. Snowden knew of Greenwald through his coverage of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping scandal, and he said he believed Greenwald could be counted on to understand the dangers of mass surveillance and not back down in the face of government pressure.

The first story Greenwald broke from Snowden's documents was about how the government collects the metadata from telecom companies, including the metadata of calls made by people in the U.S. Ever since publication, Snowden and Greenwald have been at the center of controversies about leaking and journalistic ethics.

Greenwald's new book, No Place To Hide, tells the story of how he met Snowden, the editorial decisions he's made and the revelations contained in some of the documents Snowden leaked. Greenwald tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about why Snowden decided to leak the documents and whether the leaks have impeded NSA's ability to detect terrorist threats.

On a common misunderstanding about Edward Snowden

One of the things ... that I think has been misunderstood about Edward Snowden ... is that he actually hasn't released a single document to the public. He could have if he wanted to: He could have uploaded the documents to the Internet on his own; he could have given them to foreign powers. There are all sorts of things he could have done, and what he did instead is he came to journalists and said, "I don't actually think that I, Edward Snowden, am the person who should be making the decisions about what the public should and shouldn't see. I actually think that's journalists who ought to be making that call and I want you to work within media organizations that have experience in making these decisions and make those judgments yourself." ... There's a huge responsibility that comes from making those choices.

On why Snowden leaked the documents

Edward Snowden does not think that there is one or two discrete programs within the NSA that are abusive and out of control. He believes the NSA system itself, the entire ubiquitous system of suspicionless surveillance, is itself inherently abusive and the public has a right to know, not about every detail, not about every program, but about the capabilities that this agency has developed so that the world can have a debate about whether we actually want a system like that.

On the process of reading through the leaked documents

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Edward Snowden makes video explaining how to avoid NSA tracking emails

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Snowden made video to teach reporter how to speak with him securely It explains how to use Public Key Encryption to scramble online messages Privacy campaigners call on ordinary people to learn how to use the method

By Damien Gayle

Published: 06:17 EST, 14 May 2014 | Updated: 08:00 EST, 14 May 2014

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Whistleblower: The tutorial Edward Snowden made for reporters on to avoid NSA email surveillance has been made public for the first time

Ordinary people must learn to scramble their emails, privacy campaigners said today, as an encryption how-to video made by Edward Snowden was made public for the first time.

The former NSA employee who blew the whistle on the agency's all-pervasive online surveillance made the video to teach reporters how to communicate with him in secret.

The 12-minute clip, in which Mr Snowden has used software to distort his voiceover, explains how to use free software to scramble messages using a technique called Public Key Encryption (PKE).

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