Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former attorney. In 2014, he, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, launched The Intercept, for which he was co-founding editor until he resigned in October 2020. He is a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in the 1990s.

About Glenn Greenwald in brief

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former attorney. After graduating from law school in 1994, Greenwald worked as a corporate lawyer, before founding his own civil rights and constitutional law firm in 1996. In the course of nearly a decade of litigation, Greenwald represented a number of controversial clients in First Amendment cases, including individuals and organizations affiliated with neo-Nazism. Greenwald initially supported the War on Terror and President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, but had become a staunch critic of the Administration’s Iraq policy and policies concerning civil liberties by 2005. In October 2005, he began his blog Unclaimed Territory focusing on the investigation pertaining to the Plame affair, the CIA leak grand jury investigation, the federal indictment of Scooter Libby and the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy. In June 2013, while at The Guardian, Greenwald began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden. Along with other reporters, Greenwald won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for the reporting. He has also written best-selling books, including No Place to Hide. In 2014, he, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, launched The Intercept, for which he was co-founding editor until he resigned in October 2020. In a 2010 article for Salon, Greenwald described U.S. Army Private Chelsea Manning as a whistle-blower with the noblest of motives.

In an article for The Raw Story in 2011, Greenwald criticized the conditions in prison in which Chelsea Manning was held, which he said were similar to the conditions under which Daniel Ellsberg was held in prison. In 2012, Greenwald published an article in which he criticized the treatment of Chelsea Manning by the U.N. Security Council. In 2013, he wrote an article about how the United States should be more sensitive to the rights of whistleblowers. He is a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in the 1990s. He was a member of the New York City Board of Aldermen from 1994 to 1995. In 1996, he co-founded his own litigation firm, Greenwald Christoph & Holland, where he litigated cases concerning issues of U. S. constitutional law and civil rights. He worked pro bono much of the time, and his cases included representing white supremacist Matthew Hale in Illinois and the neo-nazi National Alliance. In 2005, according to Greenwald, he decided voluntarily to wind down his practice in 2005 because he was bored with litigating full-time and wanted to do other things which he thought were more engaging and could make more of an impact, including political writing. In 2011, he was named as a candidate for the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but withdrew his name from the post after opposition led by liberal blogs and blogs led by Greenwald and LauraPoitras.

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