Tag: Glenn Greenwald

Barrett Brown, a Texas-based journalist who was imprisoned by federal authorities following a raid of both his apartment and his mother’s house amid his own investigations into government defense contractors, was released from prison Tuesday, five months prior to his scheduled release date. Brown, who pleaded guilty two years ago to three Internet threats, accessory after the fact, and interfering with the execution of a search warrant, had originally been charged with more than a dozen crimes and faced more than 100 years in prison. A majority of the charges were dropped after his lawyers challenged the wisdom of the allegations in court.

Moviegoers sit in the same hotel room in China where the filmmaker and Greenwald meet Snowden for the very first time.

Greenwald's new book "No Place to Hide" gives an inside look into his reporting on Edward Snowden's NSA leaks.

"It's the largest leak trial in U.S. history. It has ramifications, wide ramifications."