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Glenn Greenwald

Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 2:45 PM UTC

Challenging the Surveillance State

How can the sprawling domestic spying apparatus be undermined?

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I’m traveling this week in connection with the release of the paperback of With Liberty and Justice for Some, so writing every day may be difficult. In the meantime, here are the first four segments of the speech I gave in Chicago on Friday night on Challenging the Surveillance State (if you can only watch one, the fourth segment — on the harms from ubiquitous surveillance — is the one I’d recommend). I will post the video of the excellent audience discussion that followed once it is available (thanks to Kevin Gosztola for posting these; he has typically worthwhile commentary on the speech). Also, I was on Up With Chris Hayes this morning, which included a superb discussion of campaign finance, Citizens United, and oligarchical control of elections, and will post that when it is available as well:


 


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Glenn Greenwald (email: GGreenwald@salon.com) is a former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and is the author of three New York Times Bestselling books: two on the Bush administration's executive power and foreign policy abuses, and his latest book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, an indictment of America's

two-tiered system of justice. Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, and is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative work on the arrest and oppressive detention of Bradley Manning.




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