As he waited for an Al Jazeera studio in Washington to be ready, he put on red-framed glasses and read from his laptop. Do you like my glasses? Greenwald and Lake debated the case for American bombing in Syria, as a response to a recent chemical attack in Douma, which had killed dozens of people.
The next day, U. Lake favored intervention; Greenwald did not. He brings scant greenroom bonhomie onstage, and rarely smiles; he seems content to risk appearing disagreeable, or wrongheaded. This approach works best when it is set against eye-rolling disdain or fear. Lake was measured and genial. After the segment, Greenwald felt dissatisfied.
Some of his dogs are allowed inside; others live outdoors, and now and then strike wolflike poses at the summit of the boulder. Because there was always someone arriving at or leaving the house—friends, couriers, domestic staff—there was always a new reason to bark. The paper appended a correction and published a self-admonishing article by its media critic. A year later, CNN and other outlets published, and then retracted, the claim that, in the fall of , Donald Trump, Jr.
To many people, Greenwald has looked ravenous and gleeful. He disputed this characterization. In the summer of , he referred to narratives of Russian malfeasance as smears. Since then, as the accusation has been fleshed out and gained almost universal acceptance, Greenwald has chosen to highlight the commentary of people who sound deranged about Russian interference.
When Preet Bharara , the former U. Even if Greenwald came to accept that some kind of intrusion by some Russians was likely, he could still continue to taint the idea by highlighting nuttiness. He said that Greenwald, through such commentary, has implied that the Trump-Russia story is bogus, even as he has maintained an official agnosticism. We were speaking shortly before the indictments, in July, of twelve Russian intelligence officers. Some people—I would include myself—are interested in reporting this out without any contradiction of the impulse that led us to report the Snowden story.
Some people are not. Shortly before we met, Greenwald tweeted a link to an article about the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, in the South of England, using Novichok, a nerve agent. To be precise, the scientists had merely identified the chemical, not its origin though the Russians invented it. Perhaps he had erred. He had just called it the stuff of everyday international relations.
Put another way: the choice is between Greenwald and the end of the world. I said that he sometimes seemed to be giving argumentative form to a psychological preference: it was perhaps more satisfying to defend a besieged opinion than to share an agreed one and thereby become tainted with tribalism.
His choice of journalistic subjects was also pragmatic, he said. Over the years, he could have written more often about gay rights, or abortion, areas where his views largely conform to progressive orthodoxy.
A few days later, on the phone, Greenwald had news. He was still pondering the best way to announce it. In , not long after Greenwald graduated from N. He applied to join, at a cost of twenty-five dollars a month. In his teens, Greenwald had been close to his paternal grandfather, a left-wing member of the Lauderdale Lakes city council.
After his grandfather retired, Greenwald, at eighteen and again at twenty-two, ran for the same council—inspired more by the promise of conflict than by an impatience to serve. But his career in competitive debating had been stellar, and he knew that he disliked Rush Limbaugh conservatism. For gay people, and for anybody who felt any sense of shame or constraint about their sexual identity and their sexual expression, the Internet was this incredibly powerful tool.
I think that part of my bond with Snowden was that the Internet was so crucial to his own development. When you have a place where you can be anything, or do anything, or say anything, you realize how emancipating that is, and to lose that is a huge loss. In , Greenwald set up his own law firm. And by , when Greenwald started his blog, he wrote as a critic of U. Bush Administration horrors were transgressions, not signs of chronic imperial disorder.
When ISIS filmed a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive, in , Greenwald immediately published a post on the Intercept about civilian injuries from napalm, during the Vietnam War, and from U. Greenwald wrote fast; by , he had published two more books.
And I became the critic of the Democratic Party from the left. One morning at the house in Rio, Miranda met with some of his colleagues, and with Greenwald, to discuss electoral strategy. Miranda, now thirty-three, stopped attending school at thirteen. Three years later, he ran for the Rio city council, as a member of a small party, the Socialism and Liberty Party, and won. This fall, he is running for Congress. Greenwald left the table to get food. A senior media figure in the city later told me, with amusement, that Miranda now spoke Portuguese with a slight American accent.
Two fucking kids who we love! Twenty-four fucking dogs! I think we proved we love each other. Greenwald brought out some brittle baked pasta. This included a presentation about PRISM , the then unknown program that facilitated the collection of data from major American Internet companies.
That day, Greenwald and Miranda, stunned, talked for five hours. By then, Greenwald had gone back to their hotel. In December, , Snowden reached out to Greenwald, who had recently been hired away from Salon by the Guardian. The Raw Story. Raw Story. Retrieved 21 July The New York Times Company. San Francisco Chronicle. While "Patriot" parachuted to rd place by week's end after hitting No. Comments Forum HaloScan. Glenn Greenwald in conversation with Theodore Hamm". The Brooklyn Rail.
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