glenn greenwald? >> immediately after that hearing, politico asked mike rogers from another there was any doubt anyway, but specifically who were you thinking about when you are engaged in that colloquy in he said, glenn greenwald. the headlines in politico and huffington post and many other places was, house intelligence committee chairman glenn greenwald of being a thief and a fence and engaging in felonies. so when you have those kinds of accusations being made by people who are powerful in washington, you take them seriously. the thing about it is, even if the threats don't and that manifesting in terms of arrest, it creates this climate that is intended to be created for journalists -- where journalists have to be afraid that the journalism they're doing that is supposed to be protected by the first amendment can be subjected to arresting and charging you with crimes in a federal court system that has been extreme the deferential to the us government post-9/11 era. greenwald, hisnn new book relea

. >> glenn greenwald, edward snowden and the nsa secrets. our special report, secrets and spying is coming up next. and a programming note, my entire interview with glenn greenwald will air on "talk to al jazeera." 5 eastern, 2 pacific. >> surveillance in the name of security. a government that can track your phone calls, your e-mails, every move you make online. the year long national debate, privacy or protection. >> and we will not be able to keep our people safe. >> my conversation with glenn greenwald. >> nobody has been injured or in any way harmed as a result of our reporting. >> defending his reporting on the nsa leaks. a national hero to some, a traitor to others. >> our special report, secrets and spying. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. glenn greenwald he's at the center of the controversy over are america's spying program. the spying secrets dwoand progrd snowden. took with him. richelle carey is here with the story. richelle. >> they both took a chance and trusted each other, the year that fold changed snowden and greenwald an

glenn greenwald's store showed the u.s. government forced verizon to hand over phone records of millions of americans. it was a first of a torrent of reactions, the second involved a program called prism. president obama defended the programs immediately. he said su can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. snowden went public soon after. i have no intention of hiding who i am because i know i have done nothing wrong. the u.s. soon filed espionage charges against snowden and tried to have him extradited from hong kong. the pace of the leaks slowed but they didn't stop. thanks to the or ongoing collaboration between snowden and greenwald. a report published by the new york times the guardian and der spiegel said that the u.s. spied on the united nations, germfully and other allies. more details about how the nsa cooperates with allies and corporations. greenwald's reporting earned a pulitzer price for public service this year. the prize was given to the new york times and the guardian f

. >> edward snowden contacted glenn greenwald on september 1st, 2012. they took a chance and trusted each other. the year that followed changed their lives and the world's way of viewing the united states. >> it hasn't been a year since the young contractor boarded a flight to hawaii, with four laptops and some big secrets. he met two journalists, edward snowden, from a hotel. "the guardian" published an exclusive on edward snowden's links. glenn greenwald's journey showed verizon was forced to hand over phone records. it was the first of torrent revelations and rehabilitations. the second revealed a programme called prism. showing the agencies had access to google facebook and others. >> president obama said: >> edward snowden went public: >> the u.s. soon filed espionage charms against edward snowden and tried to have him extradited from hong kong. within a few days edward snowden was in moscow. the pace of the leaks slowed. they didn't stop thanks to the collaboration between snowed where are and glenn greenwald. a disastrous story was a report publi

glenn greenwald? >> of all the statements that are then made by the government that have been false, i think that one is the most to liberally and starkly false. 2005 thata scandal in the bush a administration was used talking on the telephone calls of americans without obtaining warrants from the court. congress, a bipartisan congress, supported by president obama, then senator obama, enacted a new law in 2008 fisa amendments act for the purpose to legalize the essence of the bush program. what the law said was the nsa has the power to listen in on the telephone conversations of americans were read their e-mails without a warrant, without a warrant whenever they're speaking to a foreign national. so all the time the nsa listens to the telephone calls of americans were read their e-mails without going and getting a warrant, completely contrary to what president obama said, and the others active it is as well, the pfizer court is a well-known joke. it was created in the mid-1970's after the church comm

greenwald believes his revelation will help shape snowden's legacy. he called it the, quote, finishing piece. watch brian williams. his exclusive interview with snowden on wednesday.

top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more poydras the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas you heard me right now this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so mol get allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas so more get is being employed in one other country that we know of however corny to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fatalities. more news from around the world in brief now seventeen people have reportedly been killed in a nigerian village of time carried out by the local islamist group boko around the village of the other gono is situated in the country's north east and is not far from the region where extremist had not some two hundred schoolgirls a month ago that time comes a day afte

. >> edward snowden may go down as the most famous whistleblower oof our time, and glenn greenwald has a new book. >> they are a system of ubiquitous, all forms of communication between everybody on the planet. >> reporter: this never-before-seen power point slide from the nsa says sniff it all, know it all, collect it all. and with this form, greenwald says any employee can search a giant database. >> all they need to do is enter an e-mail address, click a justification from a pulldown menu that allows them to do it even hit search. they've been able to get into skype video chats, even e-mails sent by people using wifi on an airplane. >> the mindset of the nsa is that there should never be a place on the planet that you can go where you are able to evade their surveillance net.

snowden wasn't initially disbelieved by greenwald. greenwald and his colleagues were skeptical. not after grilling him, not after reviewing documents. >> who was targeted by the nsa? >> okay. greenwald has all of these dock lts and those revelations we have been getting every two or three weeks have been coming from greenwald. not from snowden. according to greenwald, snowden doesn't have these documents with him any more in russia because he was worried that some foreign agent would take them from him. greenwald has the documents and he has been releasing them. and greenwald said before the week is up i will release the grand finale when i will release the names on the list the government has been targeting. we are looking for a needle in the hay stack. we want the entire hay stack. while they have targeted people. their motto has been, ready for this, collect it all. if you look at greenwald's book, which has copies of the documents in there, you will scent top of the documents, nsa motto collect it all. they want everything about everybody and they want it available for them,

glenn greenwald and some of his colleagues published this story and alleging that the u.s. were intercepting recording and archiving pretty much every move all phone call on the island nation of the bahamas and they went on in the article to say that there were similar things taking place in four of the countries and they named three of them mexico the philippines and kenya they withheld the name of that final country because they said there were serious concerns that it could put lives at risk now wiki leaks took to their twitter account to slam that this decision asking when did true published information ever harm innocent now this twitter spat ensued remember that wiki leaks is widely believed to be run by julian a songe himself glenn greenwald has said that the n.s.a. had aggressively urged them to suppress the names of the countries which they've refused but in this case of this one country there was a genuine belief that harm could be caused wiki leaks would not responding well to that and then we saw this bombshell dropped which was that they said that they would re

in a top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more poydras the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas so you heard me right now this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so mall get and allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas get has been employed in one other country that we know of however according to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fatalities. well let's take a look at what else is happening in the world two powerful explosions have rocked a busy bus terminal a crowded markets in nigeria central city of jos officials are now saying at least one hundred eighteen people looking killed and many more injured are great makes it to board behind the attack if it comes amid a bombing campaign by the terro

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in his recently published book "no place to hide" greenwald describes that moment he first met snowden in hong kong. >> what did you make of him? >> the initial impression was one of extreme confusion. because i was expecting to meet somebody in his 60s or 70s, very senior. i knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in hong kong. >> it was a really intimidating moment. you know, it was the most real point of no return because the minute you start talking to a journalist as an intelligence officer, on camera, there's really no going back from that. that's where it all comes together.

his new story with glenn greenwald and laura poitras is "data pirates of the caribbean." talk about your findings. summarize them step-by-step. >> our story details the nsa program called mystic, first detailed in a washington post story. it was developed by the nsa in 2009. it is variously sponsored through a number of subprograms which are controlled by the nsa's commercial solution center, which works with their secret partners. the nsa would not be able to function without their corporate partners that they rely on to gain access to communications networks. it is also cosponsored by the cia and the drug enforcement

please welcome glenn greenwald. (applause) i have been waiting for this for a long time. >> good, good. >> stephen: i got my knives out for you, my man. >> ready. >> stephen: welcome to the lion's den. all right, let's explain to people who love america who you are. author of three best selling book, you've written forth "new york times", l.a. times and the guardian where you are reporting on the nsa scandal and the ed snowden leak. just won the pulitzer prize for public service. (applause) and a post award for national security reporting. your new book is called no place to hide, edward snowden, the nsa and the-- surveillance state, are you looking for a place to hide? >> i'm in the. >> stephen: really? >> but if i were, there would be no one in this surveillance state, the title actually comes from frank church who investigated the surveillance state in the mid 70s and found something nobody knew which is that the nsa was collecting enormous amounts of communications. and what he said was this is an extraordinaril

also made the documents available on his website glenn-greenwald-dot-net because of the snowden leak the public knows more about the n-s-a than it ever has but for thirty years another reporter has been studying the agency and today we spoke to one of the only outside experts on the n-s-a james bamford >> before edward snowden was even more, james bamford was investigating the national security agency. he wrote three books on the nsa. and it was the first look at that they got on any spy agency. it will continue to expand, quietly pulling in more and more communications and more privacy. the prediction was overlooked, he said, because the nsa was largely unknown then. it was created in 1952 with one mission, to break codes and see soviet communications, after the cold war, it's identity was in question, and bamford said that it changed. >> collect everything at all times. >> one thing, the nsa began to focus on terrorism. >> in reality, it's not good to do that. all of the attacks, the nsa found out about them by newscasts on television. >> despite that, the nsa has continued to grow

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robert greenwald is the founder and president of brave new films. robert, tell us what happened on capitol hill. what was the controversy over your film? >> the controversy is really another example of how the kochs work, which is they tried to change the conversation. the koch lawyer put out a statement immediately then candidates who received money from the kochs picked up the statement and carry their water in an effort to really stop free speech and prevent the public

greenwald says he has thousands of documents and plans to reveal more on the intercept, a digital magazine whose parent company has a collaboration agreement with nbc news. >> several of the top, say, 5 or 10 are stories that are left to be told. one s that will really shock th world. >> reporter: green wald spoke with snowden 24 hours ago, but

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which has reported on its own batch of snowden documents and has a reporting relationship with glenn greenwald. >> when it comes to specific stories about the specific collection programs, about specific targets, these aren't decided by me. these are decided by newspapers. >> you see the part of this and for a lay audience looking on,

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greenwald still is making it between good and evil. there are good people struggling to do the right thing. let's keep the struggle going. but let's not throw out surveillance which requires sometimes surveilling innocent people. for example, the video -- >> alan -- >> it will catch people going to an abortion clinic. it will catch speeders keep talking until you let me bring glenn and. >> i will end by saying u.s. national security state officials are very adept and face the awful at present a public image that is wildly different than the rails. the whole nsa scandal began when james clapper, the director of national intelligence, way before our senate and was asked whether not the nsa is mass collecting data about millions of americans, and he looked send it is in the eye and said no, sir. and then the very next, the very first story we reported from the stoughton archives two months later proved that the nsa was doing exactly that, which the top national secret official in the united states government falsely denied to the senate a

glenn greenwald tells the story of how it happened in a new book "no place to hide." now it's time for your questions submitted through social media. helen asks, how much are activists, humanitarians or those outspoken about government policies targeted and how? >> we publish a document in the book about six different individuals that the government considers to be, quote, radicalizers who are not members of terrorist organizations or plotting terrorist attacks works just express radical ideas. the government has collected their intimate online sexual sites, visits to pornographic sites and plots in this document how to release this information to undermine their credibility. there are people who visit the wikileaks site. >> mary barber asks, in a recent interview you referred to daniel ellsberg. else berg stayed to face whatever the consequences would be. how are we supposed to see snowden in the same light? he ran like a coward and ellsberg shows courage and stayed in the country where he lives as a free man today. how do you reconcile the difference? >> the best an

earlier this week glenn greenwald revealed that the n.s.a. had been monitoring all the domestic and international phone calls of two countries one of those countries he said was the bahamas but he refused to name the second country he said that it could lead to the loss of innocent lives now there was also some speculation that he was perhaps under pressure to keep that second country a secret none of that pleased rival whistleblower julian assange blasted greenwald on twitter and accused him of censoring at the request of the us government he promised to reveal that second country himself and lo and behold he's carried out that promise and has announced through the wiki leaks website that is it is indeed afghanistan that is the target of the n.s.a.'s some will get program which is a mass mobile phone spying program in the way it works is that it sort of hoovers up entire conversations that are taking place throughout the country and it's actually different to the way that other n.s.a. surveillance programs work that we've heard of before tha

journalist glenn greenwald on n.s.a. surveillance. and controversial new rules for how the internet should work. >> ifill: veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki was in the hot seat on capitol hill today. facing tough questions from lawmakers investigating allegations that veterans may have died while awaiting treatment at a v.a. hospital in phoenix. and some believe there is even more to the story. >> any allegation, any adverse incident like this, makes me mad as hell. >> reporter: veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki told a senate panel that he was angered and saddened by reports of delayed treatment and preventable deaths at v.a. hospitals. shinseki appeared to defend his agency against accusations that a v.a. hospital in phoenix falsified scheduling reports and that up to 40 veterans died awaiting treatment. he is facing mounting calls for his resignation. >> if any allegations are true, they are completely unacceptable if any are substantiated by the inspector general, we will act. >> ifill: later in the hearing, acting in

. >> gleann greenwald has led the he said more revelation are yet to come? >> among the biggest stories are left to be reported. >> the journalist believes there is a limit to the public's right to know. everybody acknowledges some limited discriminating. it's out with a new book "no place to hide" which details his first encounter with snowden on his trip to hong kong. >> everything we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy. he joined me to talk about his work and answered questions from our viewers. >> let me start with the book and go back to the first time you met edward snowden in hong kong. the book reads like a spy novel at that moment. >> it was like living in a spy film essentially because we knew a couple of things, that this was certainly the biggest leak in national security history, that if the u.s. government found out what it was that he was doing that they would take very extreme mezto put a stop to it one way or the other but we didn't know much else. we didn't know whether the u.s. government knew anything or what

the interview was arranged by glen greenwald who won a pulitzer and who has written a book and will be interviewed. nbc signed a, quote, collaboration agreement" with first look media. it was williams' nbc colleague david gregory who asked greenwald last june whether he should be charged with a crime for working with snowden. when greenberg returned for a "meet the press" rematch gregory didn't interview him, that was left to a reporter. we'll find out in a primetime special this week how aggressive brian williams is with snowden. >> a good get for williams, good for greenwald would has a book, and no matter what you think about him, whether or not you think he's a hero or traitor, we'll get interesting information out of it which is a win for the american people. >> i'm sure brian williams will ask a lot of questions but that will be critiqued as well and we'll talk about it next wire. that's it for "media buzz" this week and i want to take a minute to thank all the veterans out there who have given their service to our country and how much we appreciate it on this memorial day weeken

. >> snowden turned over the secret documents to glenn greenwald a lawyer turned journalist and laura poitras, a documentary filmmaker both of whom traveled to russia for our interview. in his recently published book "no place to hide" greenwald describes that moment he first met snowden in hong kong. >> what did you make of him? >> the initial impression was one of extreme confusion. because i was expecting to meet somebody in his 60s or 70s, very senior. i knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in hong kong. >> it was a really intimidating moment. you know, it was the most real point of no return because the minute you start talking to a journalist as an intelligence officer, on camera, there's really no going back from that. that's where it all comes together. >> also, you had this tangible evidence. in effect he was saying to you if i wasn't legit, where else would i have gotten this? >> right. that was certainly a good start to establishing his credibility and his authenticity was the fact he was able to produce many thousands of documents from the most secretive agen

that spring, glenn greenwald arrived in new york to deliver a speech. >> and we met that night in my hotel, in the lobby. and she showed me these emails that she had been exchanging with this person who was claiming that he was a national security state insider with access to very sensitive information that he believed to be very incriminating, and stated very definitively that he wanted to turn it over to her and to me. >> narrator: greenwald decided to join poitras. >> we all knew that this was incredibly risky and uncertain, but the story had to be reported. >> narrator: in june, poitras and greenwald headed to the airport. >> i think they're kind of quite excited, but there's also a sort of feeling that maybe this is just the most terrific hoax. >> narrator: they were joined by ewen macaskill, a veteran guardian reporter. >> at the time, i didn't think it was for real, didn't take it that seriously, and thought it was a slightly obscure story. >> narrator: once they were finally airborne, poitras thought it was safe to share with greenwald something the source had securely sent t

glenn greenwald's new book about edward snowden. greenwald who won a prize for helping the leaky geek make america less safe. he has heard rumors that the cast list may include edward snowden playing himself. i came up with some better ideas. here is snowden being played by a giant green red and greenwald being played by a fish. >> meanwhile footage of snowden on a motorcycle has surfaced on line. let's take a look. that was definitely shoe horned into this segment. all right. i don't know where to start. i will just go with you, lou. are you as angry about arizona i am because i know they are making money off something that is actually harming america. that bothers me. >> yes to both. the fact is that this fellow let me say this delicately, he's treasonous. he's a traitor. the people who are reticent to see what he is and what he's done, i don't understand them. the fact that he's a russian agent should be crystal clear to even the simplest mind. >> that's true. i believe that too. i believe he's now a russian agent. >> make the mo

robert greenwald is the founder and president of brave new films. robert, tell us what happened on capitol hill. what was the controversy over your film? >> the controversy is really another example of how the kochs work, which is they tried to change the conversation. the koch lawyer put out a statement immediately then candidates who received money from the kochs picked up the statement and carry their water in an effort to really stop free speech and prevent the public airing of the clips from the film. it can't happen today because billions of people will see the full film for free on the internet, but it was really an effort to remove the conversation so that we were talking about the fundamental issue, which is the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent, but there was some silly argument that could it be shown or could it not be shown. diversion, diversion, and a version. >> your film notes that each koch brother makes $1.8 million every hour. it would take a minimum wage worker 76 years to make that much money. i want to turn to a new cl

i'm pleased to have glenn greenwald at this table for the first time. welcome. >> great to be here. >> rose: let's start with the title no place to hide comes from the investigating committee. >> the famous church committee of the mid 1970's. i discovered when surveillance apparatuses are invested in the u.s. government without oversight or transparenty will be abused. what he is he at the time nobody knew this capability has been amassed. the mandate of the nsa was never spied demonstrateally. if it ever got turned against the american people there's no place to hide. it's come to be that the nsa does direct itself both at foreign nationals and the american population. >> rose: do you believe that these disclosures have changed the nsa? >> they certainly change the debate surrounding the nsa. i believe they're going to change the authorities that the nsa has as a result of congress and i think that it has made the nsa for the first types since at least the september 11 attacks questions whether or not because it has the capability to do something means