Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit US
Source: Salon
Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever
BRIAN BEUTLER
When big-name public figures and Edward Snowden critics first started suggesting Glenn Greenwald and other writers whod published his surveillance disclosures might be in legal jeopardy, Greenwald assumed that both the clamor and the actual risk to journalist would quickly subside, and eventually disappear.
That was about six months ago. Today, Greenwald believes he miscalculated. In an exclusive interview Wednesday he said that the ominous rhetoric directed at him has actually escalated. Its discouraged him from visiting the United States, where he still has strong family and professional ties. And though he intends to re-enter the country sooner rather than later, hell do so despite the fact that he believes he faces a much greater risk of detention than most of the other journalists who have access to some or all of Snowdens files.
As the story kind of went on I thought the prospect of something happening to the journalists would dissipate to zero. I actually think that the risk is higher than its ever been, Greenwald told me. My parents are getting older, my nieces [live there] none of that is something Im going to go home for now
. I had a foundation that wanted to sponsor and pay for and market aggressively a six-city speaking tour to talk about the NSA story and the revelations. I would have completely loved to have done it
on the assurance that nothing would happen. And because we couldnt get it from the U.S. government, I had to cancel.
When we last spoke in August, Greenwald was cognizant of the risks hed face if he visited the United States, but he was also pointedly defiant. I take more seriously the Constitutions guarantee of a free press in the First Amendment, he said at the time. So I have every intention of entering the U.S. as soon as my schedule permits and theres a reason to do so.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/06/exclusive_greenwald_tells_salon_government_intimidation_has_discouraged_him_from_visiting_u_s_for_now/
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)incident, and uses it as his "excuse."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4125055
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It's like the thinks Pres Obama has nothing better to do than think of him. Frankly, after he used Mr. Snowden (and I absolutely think GG planned the theft of the information), he tossed him aside. I have no use for him whatsoever and I doubt the President does either. But as I always suspected, it's ALL about Greenwald.
I must say I'm curious who coordinated Comrade Eddie...any concept that the Traitor simply got a job and then innocently stumbled upon what the NSA was doing, is bullshit.
It was a planned, plotted and coordinated theft.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)arrest his ass.
And since he too, like Comrade Eddie, have more love for foreign countries, let Greenwald stay in South America or where ever.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Psephos
(8,032 posts)...and I didn't like it then, either.
For the same reason.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)In this system, you need evidence that the person sought to be arrested is/was involved in a crime ... whether that person is a "advocacy journalist" or a banker.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)This is no longer the land of the free & home of the brave.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Who will play Glenn though?
I have a feeling this isn't going to end well for him. Too bad, I like the guy.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)no way he stays out of the U.S....
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)Cha
(297,314 posts)winner! Ding Ding Ding
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)GG's future ($$$$$) prospects.
EC
(12,287 posts)thrown into a gulag? Mr. Drama...
Cha
(297,314 posts)get over himself.