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Last Word - NSA spying on Americans
Published on Jun 7, 2013
Last Word - NSA spying on Americans - Lawrence O'Donnell asks Glenn Greenwald about the NSA domestic surveillance scoop and whether he expects to be investigated by the Obama government for reporting on this information.
Last Word - NSA spying on Americans - Lawrence O'Donnell asks Glenn Greenwald about the NSA domestic surveillance scoop and whether he expects to be investigated by the Obama government for reporting on this information.
Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story of the NSA’s data grab that has roiled the media in the past twenty-four hours, spoke to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell Thursday night about the extreme reaction his story has produced.
O’Donnell asked Greenwald about the possibility of leak investigations, which Dianne Feinstein has intimated would include Greenwald.
“Let them go and investigate,” Greenwald said. “There’s this document called the Constitution. One of the things that it guarantees is the right of a free press, which means that as a citizen and journalist, I have the absolute Constitutional right to go and report on what it is that my government is doing in the dark, and inform my fellow citizens about that action.”
“There is this massive surveillance state that the United States government has built up,” Greenwald continued, “that has extraordinary implications for how we live as human beings on the earth and as Americans in our country, and we have the right to know what it is that that government and that agency is doing. I intend to continue to shine light on that, and Dianne Feinstein can beat her chest all she wants and call for investigations and none of that is going to stop and none of it is going to change.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-greenwald-details-menacing-reach-of-nsas-invasion-of-google-facebook-apple-servers/O’Donnell asked Greenwald about the possibility of leak investigations, which Dianne Feinstein has intimated would include Greenwald.
“Let them go and investigate,” Greenwald said. “There’s this document called the Constitution. One of the things that it guarantees is the right of a free press, which means that as a citizen and journalist, I have the absolute Constitutional right to go and report on what it is that my government is doing in the dark, and inform my fellow citizens about that action.”
“There is this massive surveillance state that the United States government has built up,” Greenwald continued, “that has extraordinary implications for how we live as human beings on the earth and as Americans in our country, and we have the right to know what it is that that government and that agency is doing. I intend to continue to shine light on that, and Dianne Feinstein can beat her chest all she wants and call for investigations and none of that is going to stop and none of it is going to change.”
