Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

About Glenn Greenwald:

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American lawyer, journalist and author. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest and In These Times. In February 2014 he became, along with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
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It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

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For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

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American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

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Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

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It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade ...

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I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington.

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Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

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I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

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The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

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A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

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Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

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We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they were actually doing anything wrong. We know with certainty that the U.S. Government has detained an...

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There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the ...

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The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

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The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

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The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they ...

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The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

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A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

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Author Bio

  • NameGlenn Greenwald
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist, lawyer and writer
  • BornMarch 6, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Journalist; Writer; Pundit; Blogger
  • WorksHow Would A Patriot Act?; A Tragic Legacy; No Place To Hide
  • AwardsEFF Pioneer Award; George Polk Award;