The journalist who broke many of the stories related to Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks has been charged in Brazil for cybercrimes.
Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of the Intercept, has been critical of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and was assaulted on live television in November by a Brazilian journalist after Greenwald confronted the fellow reporter for criticizing his marriage to Brazilian politician David Miranda.
Brazilian authorities claim Greenwald, 52, worked with a “criminal organization” to hack into the phones of public officials and prosecutors.
Greenwald’s discoveries, published by the Intercept Brasil, caused controversy after the messages he obtained exposed prosecutors and members of the Brazilian anti-corruption task force. The criminal complaint accuses him of doing more than just receiving the hacked messages and instead claims he had a “clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime” by communicating with the hackers.
In a statement to the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Greenwald accused Bolsonaro of trying to “silence” him.
“Less than two months ago, the federal police, examining all the same evidence cited by the Public Ministry, stated explicitly that not only have I never committed any crime but that I exercised extreme caution as a journalist never even to get close to any participation,” he said, calling the charges against him an “obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation.”
Greenwald added: “We will not be intimidated by these tyrannical attempts to silence journalists. I am working right now on new reporting and will continue to do so. Many courageous Brazilians sacrificed their liberty and even life for Brazilian democracy and against repression, and I feel an obligation to continue their noble work.”
In addition to working with Snowden, Greenwald also helped former intelligence specialist Reality Winner in leaking classified information about Russian interference in the 2016 election by publishing a copy of a report she had obtained in the Intercept in 2017. Winner was later arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.
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You had to know Bolsonaro was going to strike out at him. I wondered if he might actually whack him. Greenwald is a lefty but an honest and brave man. He protected Snowden from the intelligence ‘community’ that’s trying to epstein Julian Assange and he called out bullshit to the Russian and the Ukraine hoaxes much to the chagrin of many of his fellow lefty’s. Glenn’s too smart to leave an evidence trail. It’s a safe bet these charges are bullshit.
It’s to Trump’s discredit that he won’t do anything to pressure Bolsonaro to drop these almost certainly bogus charges against Greenwald – just as he’s leaving Assange to rot in jail. Whatever happened to “I love Wikileaks”?
I don’t know if Trump is or is not doing something to correct this. Where are you getting your information?
Three years of history have laid the foundation for his likely future (non) action.
About the only two journalists I trust are both lefties: Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Both guys call it like they see it and don’t let liberal dogma infest their writing. Plus, as CCRider said, we wouldn’t know all the spying done by our fine government on us if it wasn’t for Greenwald’s work with Snowden.
Unfortunately, I sense Greenwald will follow the path of Assange. TPTB will imprison him in some embassy in Brazil or in an actual jail cell. In either case, Greenwald’s days as a free man are numbered. You just cannot tell the truth these days without serious repercussions .
“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” – Ron Paul