[governance] (Tangential) US surveillance leak: more to come, says Greenwald

Tue Jun 11 09:49:37 EDT 2013

Riaz

Stream media know their place because he who pays the piper dictates
the music. Reason why social media garners more clout these days.

Aaron

On 6/11/13, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote:
> A clear sign that the USSR has it nemesis in the USA.
>
> On 6/11/13, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>       [haha the WashPo asks the govt before it publishes info... Eat
>>       your heart our China... the US runs a tight ship... its ideology
>>       that allows a 'scoop' to be second guessed by the state... - no
>>       aristocracy but boy does the mainstream media know their place! ]
>>
>>
>>
>>       International <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/> »
>>       World <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/>
>>
>> NEW YORK, June 11, 2013
>>
>>
>>   US surveillance leak: more to come, says Greenwald
>>
>> Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for 'The Guardian' newspaper, speaks to
>> media at a hotel in Hong Kong on Monday.
>>
>> AP Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for 'The Guardian' newspaper, speaks to
>> media at a hotel in Hong Kong on Monday.
>>
>> The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government
>> eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a
>> U.K.-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for
>> intrusions on privacy.
>>
>> Edward Snowden brought his information to Glenn Greenwald of /The
>> Guardian/ instead of to the /Washington Post/, with which he had briefly
>> corresponded. The case illustrates the passion an opinion-driven
>> journalist can bring to a breaking news story; at the same time it
>> raises questions about fairness.
>>
>> Mr. Greenwald, author of three books in which he argues the government
>> has trampled on personal rights in the name of protecting national
>> security, wrote the original stories exposing the extent of the
>> government's data collection. Over the weekend, he identified
>> intelligence contractor Snowden as his source at the latter's request,
>> and said more stories are coming.
>>
>> "What we disclosed was of great public interest, of great importance in
>> a democracy, that the U.S. government is building this massive spying
>> apparatus aimed at its own population," Mr. Greenwald said on Monday on
>> /MSNBC/'s "Morning Joe."
>>
>> Mr. Greenwald also told The Associated Press that he's been contacted by
>> "countless people" over the last 24 hours offering to create legal
>> defence funds for Mr. Snowden.
>>
>> The topic is personal for Mr. Greenwald (46). The former constitutional
>> and civil rights lawyer, educated at the New York University Law School,
>> began the "Unclaimed Territory" blog in 2005 and wrote "How Would a
>> Patriot Act?" a year later. The book criticized the Bush administration
>> for its use of executive power.
>>
>> Mr. Greenwald, now based in Brazil, wrote a regular column for /Salon/
>> for five years until joining /The Guardian/ last year.
>>
>> Elaborating on the surveillance programme, he wrote, one programme
>> collects hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records. The second
>> programme takes in audio, email and other electronic activities
>> primarily by non-U.S. nationals who use providers such as Microsoft and
>> Apple. Mr. Greenwald described the collection of phone records on Monday
>> as "rampant abuse and it needs sunlight. That's why this person came
>> forward and that's why we published our stories.
>>
>> On "Morning Joe," he snapped that co-host Mika Brzezinski was using
>> "Obama talking points" when she challenged him with a question.
>>
>> "The wall of secrecy behind which they operate is impenetrable and it is
>> a real menace to democracy," said Mr. Greenwald, who won a 2010 Online
>> Journalism Association award for his coverage of Bradley Manning, who is
>> charged with giving classified documents to WikiLeaks.
>>
>> Mr. Snowden, however, had not just gone to Mr. Greenwald with his
>> information. Barton Gellman of /The Washington Post/ wrote on Sunday
>> that Mr. Snowden had contacted him about the story. He said Mr. Snowden
>> had asked that the /Post/ to publish within 72 hours the full contents
>> of a presentation he had made about the collection of electronic
>> activity from the Silicon Valley companies.
>>
>> Mr. Gellman said the /Post/ would not make any guarantees and sought the
>> government's views about whether the information would harm national
>> security. The /Post/ eventually agreed to publish a small sample of what
>> Mr. Snowden was offering, but Mr. Snowden backed away, writing that "I
>> regret that we weren't able to keep this project unilateral," Mr.
>> Gellman wrote.
>>
>> Mr. Greenwald's clear point of view doesn't necessarily weaken the
>> story, said Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University and
>> author of the /Press Think/ blog.
>>
>> "In many ways it strengthens it," he said. Mr. Greenwald has a clear
>> stance on privacy and national security, but they aren't partisan; he's
>> criticized Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican
>> predecessor, George W. Bush. Journalists with strong viewpoints, is a
>> tradition with a long history in the U.S., Mr. Rosen said.
>>
>> "The fact that sources now may choose (outlets) on the basis of
>> commitment is a fact and journalists whose professional stance is no
>> commitment may find themselves at a disadvantage," he said.
>>
>> Mr. Greenwald's known feelings on the issue "does leave a little opening
>> for critics," said Ellen Shearer, head of the national security
>> journalism initiative at Northwestern University. There's always a risk
>> that such passion can work against a journalist; some people would worry
>> that facts contradictory to a predisposed belief could be overlooked.
>>
>> To this point, Mr. Shearer said there's been little pushback on the
>> facts, with the debate primarily about whether the information should be
>> published.
>>
>> Intelligence officials are investigating the leak and its impact on its
>> programs. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the
>> revelation of the intelligence-gathering programmes reckless and said it
>> has done "huge, grave damage."
>>
>> /The Guardian/ took care not to publish material that may help other
>> countries improve their eavesdropping or could put the lives of covert
>> agents at risk, Mr. Greenwald said.
>>
>> "We've published these things they marked 'top secret' that don't
>> actually harm national security but conceal what they've done from the
>> public," he said.
>>
>> Keywords: Glenn Greenwald
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>> US surveillance leak
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>> Edward Snowden
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>> right to privacy
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>> U.S. electronic snooping
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>> US NSA programme
>> <http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-surveillance-leak-more-to-come-says-greenwald/article4803716.ece#>,
>>
>>
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