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Glenn Greenwald
History & Commentary
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist and author whose reporting covers national security, civil liberties, government surveillance, and American foreign policy.
Biography
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer. In 1996, he founded a law firm focused on First Amendment litigation. He began blogging about national security in 2005, driven by concerns about civil liberties under the George W. Bush administration. He became a critic of the Iraq War and American foreign policy.
Greenwald began contributing to Salon in 2007 and The Guardian in 2012. In June 2013, he reported on American and British surveillance programs using classified documents supplied by Edward Snowden. His reporting contributed to The Guardian’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize, and he shared the 2013 George Polk Award with two other reporters.
In 2014, Greenwald cofounded The Intercept, where he served as an editor until October 2020. Through The Intercept Brasil, he published leaked conversations involving officials in Brazil’s Operation Car Wash investigation. After leaving The Intercept, he launched his own newsletter. He hosts System Update on Rumble.
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Books by Glenn Greenwald
No Place to Hide
No Place to Hide recounts Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on National Security Agency surveillance based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden. It examines the agency’s collection of information about US citizens and interception of communications worldwide, including further revelations from Snowden’s documents.