{"id":37150,"date":"2013-12-02T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=37150"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:20:15","slug":"hardtalk-glenn-greenwald-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/12\/hardtalk-glenn-greenwald-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"HARDTalk &#8211; Glenn Greenwald &#8211; Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>28 Nov 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Edward Snowden&#8217;s leaking of American intelligence secrets, the whole world now knows the extent of US-UK surveillance of global phone and internet traffic. Have the revelations flagged up a corrosive infringement of individual liberty, or undermined efforts to protect the world from terrorism?<\/p>\n<p><i>HardTALK speaks to journalist Glenn Greenwald &#8211; he broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IuothSrX1mQ<br \/>\n<b><i>Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer<\/i><\/b><i>, was until 2012 a contributing writer at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\" >Salon<\/a> and until 2013 a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian. He is the author of <\/i>How Would a Patriot Act?<i> (May 2006), a critique of the Bush administration&#8217;s use of executive power; <\/i>A Tragic Legacy<i> (June, 2007), which examines the Bush legacy; and <\/i>With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Nov 2013 &#8211; HardTALK speaks to journalist Glenn Greenwald &#8211; he broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}