Ashley Wells, Irma Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.com, April 14, 2014); Firstlook.org/TheIntercept
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| Journalists exposing NSA (zimbio) |
Months ago, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept) flew from New York to
Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Poitras and Greenwald did not return to the US until Friday when they flew from Berlin to NY to accept the George
Polk Award for National Security Reporting. They arrived not knowing if
they would be detained or subpoenaed after Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper described journalists working on NSA stories as Snowden’s "accomplices." At a news conference following the ceremony, Poitras and Greenwald took questions from
reporters about their reporting and the U.S. government intimidation it has
sparked. More
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In their first return to the US since exposing the NSA’s mass surveillance operations, the Intercept journalists were honored in NYC on Friday. They play key roles in reporting the
massive trove of documents leaked by Snowden.
They were joined by
colleagues Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of The
Washington Post, with whom they shared the award. In their acceptance
speeches, they paid tribute to their source: "Each one
of these awards just provides further vindication that what [Snowden]
did in coming forward was absolutely the right thing to do and merits
gratitude, and not indictments and decades in prison," Greenwald said.
"None of us would be here...without the fact that someone decided to
sacrifice [his] life to make this information available," Poitras said.
"And so this award is really for Edward Snowden."
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