Great American Hypocrites
| Glenn Greenwald | |
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Greenwald in 2014
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| Born | Glenn Edward Greenwald March 6, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Genre | Non-fiction, political and legal commentary |
| Subjects | U.S. politics, law |
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| Spouse | David Michael Miranda |
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| GlennGreenwald.net | |
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for those reports. He has written several best-selling books, including, No Place to Hide.
Greenwald's work on the Snowden story was featured in the documentary, Citizenfour, which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Greenwald appeared on-stage with director Laura Poitras and Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsey Mills, when the Oscar was given. In the 2016 Oliver Stone feature film Snowden, Greenwald was played by actor Zachary Quinto.
Before the Snowden file disclosures, Greenwald was widely considered one of the most influential opinion columnists in the United States. After working as a constitutional attorney for ten years, he began blogging on national security issues before becoming a Salon contributor in 2007 and then moving to The Guardian in 2012. He currently writes for and co-edits The Intercept, which he founded in 2013 with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.
Greenwald was born in New York City to Arlene and Daniel Greenwald. Greenwald's family moved to Lauderdale Lakes, Florida when he was an infant. His parents are Jewish and raised him in the faith, but he did not have a bar mitzvah and does not consider himself religious. He received a BA in Philosophy from George Washington University in 1990 and a JD from New York University School of Law in 1994.
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