MTP: Guardian Journalist Spars About Edward Snowden Leaks

Glenn Greenwald

On NBC’s Meet The Press Glenn Greenwald of the Sunday guardian took host David Gregory to task Sunday morning.  Gregory asked if Greenwald should be criminally culpable for “aiding and abetting” NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

“I think it’s pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies,” Greenwald said. “The assumptions in your question, David, is completely without evidence, the idea I’ve aided and abetted him in any way. The scandal that arose in Washington before our stories began was about the fact that the Obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism by going through the e-mails and records of AP reporters, accusing a Fox News journalist of the theory you just embraced, being co-conspirator in felonies for working with sources.”

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Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 23, 2013