Intercepting the National Spying Agency |
In part two of Democracy Now's extended interview, Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald tells
the inside story of meeting National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower
Edward Snowden.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras were the
journalists who first met Snowden in Hong Kong last June, going on to
publish a series of disclosures in The Guardian, a venerable 190-year-old British newspaper, that exposed massive NSA
surveillance to the world.
Host Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! |
Greenwald has just come out with a new book
on the Snowden leaks and their fallout, No Place to Hide: Edward
Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance
State.
Recalling his first encounter with Snowden, Greenwald says: "The
big question was: 'How are we going to know that it’s you? We know
nothing about you. We don’t know how old you are, what you look like, or
what your race is, or even your gender.' And [Snowden] said, 'You’ll know me
because I’ll be holding in my left hand a Rubik’s cube.' And so he
walked in, was holding a Rubik’s cube, came over to us, introduced
himself, and that was how we met him." More
More from The Intercept
The United Kingdom’s top spy agency is facing legal
action following revelations published by The Intercept about its
involvement in secret efforts to hack into computers on a massive scale.
Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, has been accused of
acting unlawfully by helping to develop National Security Agency
surveillance systems capable of covertly breaking into More
British surveillance agency GCHQ secretly coveted the
NSA’s vast troves of private communications and sought “unsupervised
access” to its data as recently as last year, classified documents
provided NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal.
Top political officials in other nations have
repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance
about their nations’ cooperation with the NSA, as well as their own
spying activities. Were these top officials truly unaware, or were they
pretending to be?
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