Glenn Greenwald: podcast appearances and interviews

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer born on March 6, 1967. He founded a law firm in 1996 that specialized in First Amendment litigation and began blogging on national security issues in October 2005. Greenwald became increasingly concerned with what he saw as attacks on civil liberties by the George W. Bush administration following the September 11 attacks. He was a vocal critic of the Iraq War and has maintained a critical stance on American foreign policy. He started contributing to Salon in 2007 and to The Guardian in 2012. While at The Guardian, Greenwald notably published a series of reports in June 2013 based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden, which revealed details about American and British global surveillance programs. His work contributed to The Guardian winning the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and earned him a George Polk Award in 2013. In 2014, he cofounded The Intercept and served as its editor until his resignation in October 2020. Subsequently, he began publishing his own newsletter. In June 2019, Greenwald used The Intercept Brasil to publish leaked conversations involving senior officials related to Operation Car Wash, a corruption investigation in Brazil, which suggested prejudicial conduct by an investigative judge against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In January 2020, Brazilian prosecutors charged him with cybercrimes over the leaks, but the charges were dismissed a month later by a federal judge. Greenwald now hosts the show System Update on Rumble.