GCHQ has really acquired a huge amount of information that will make bulk surveillance of telephone communications very, very easy.
Freed CIA torture whisteblower John Kiriakou has advice for Edward Snowden: Don’t come back to the United States.
“I do not believe that he will get a fair trial in the United States, especially in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he’s being charged or where he has been charged. I think the deck is stacked against him, as it is against any whistleblower. If the government has its way, Ed Snowden will never see the light of day,” Kiriakou says on Democracy Now! in his first broadcast interview since leaving prison.
Watch the full 45-minute interview here.
What was your favorite Democracy Now! interview this year? We’re looking back at our 20 most popular segments of 2014. Check out these interviews, which rank from #11 to #20 in our list. Stay tuned as we continue our countdown through December 31st.
#11 Glenn Greenwald: Why Did NBC Pull Key Reporter After He Witnessed Israeli Killing of Gaza Kids? (Watch)
#12 Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt by US-Backed Right-Wing Groups to Oust Elected Government (Watch)
#13 Are Any Plastics Safe? Industry Tries to Hide Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Bottles, Containers (Watch)
#14 Bank Whistleblower and Matt Taibbi on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck Economy, Avoid Prosecution (Watch)
#15 Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting (Watch)
#16 Koch Brothers Exposed: The Chilling New Documentary Republicans Don’t Want You to See (Watch)
#17 Prof. Ilan Pappé: #Israel Has Chosen to be a “Racist Apartheid State” with U.S. Support (Watch)
#18 Exclusive: DN! Goes Inside Assange’s Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks, Snowden and Winning Freedom (Watch)
#19 Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA “Infects” Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server (Watch)
#20 Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street (Watch)
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Watch: On Democracy Now today, reporter Glenn Greenwald sharply criticizes NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston for presenting a report quoting a known CIA-backed tech firm as an objective account on the effects of the Snowden leaks on al-Qaeda cyber tactics.
“This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit,” says Greenwald. “NPR radically misled millions of people with this report.”
The tech firm Recorded Future claimed to have “tangible evidence” that Snowden’s leaks harmed national security by prompting terrorists to develop more sophisticated encryption programs.
Greenwald explains that the CIA had invested millions of dollars in the tech firm, that the investment arm of the agency sits on the board, and that the individual researcher Temple-Raston quotes in the report heads a company in a strategic partnership with the CIA.
“The only thing they really had in common is that they are all politically active Americans Muslims … that seems to be enough in the intelligence community to render these people suspicious,” says The Intercept reporter Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now! today.
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, Amy Goodman goes inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London to speak with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange has been living in the embassy for more than two years under political asylum. Click here to watch the 3-part, 90-minute interview.
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sits down with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for an in-depth interview inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, where he has entered his third year in political asylum. Click here to watch the 45-minute interview.
Watch an exclusive Democracy Now! television interview with WikiLeaks investigative editor Sarah Harrison as she talks about her decision to help NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
“His history, I think, sort of speaks for itself, in that he’s always had a desire to serve his country. He’s always been very patriotic,” Harrison says. “I felt an empathy, a natural human empathy, and wished to support.”
Democracy Now! has followed the Edward Snowden story closely, click here to watch all the reports.
Meet one of Edward Snowden’s lawyers: Wolfgang Kaleck
“It’s not that we are pointing to the NSA as the only evil secret service,” Kaleck says. “We want to talk about our secret services. We want to talk about secret services and their activities globally … it’s up to us to close the door and to establish a stronger regulation for secret services, wherever they are.”
Democracy Now! sits down with Kaleck to discuss Germany’s decision to cancel its contract with the U.S. telecommunications firm Verizon and despite growing outrage of U.S. surveillance, if Germany may issue asylum to Snowden.
Click here to watch the interview.
On Democracy Now!, journalist Glenn Greenwald recalls his first encounter with Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel:
“The big question was: How are we going to know that it’s you? We know nothing about you. We don’t know how old you are, what you look like or what your race is or even your gender. And he said, ‘You’ll know me because I’ll be holding in my left hand a Rubik’s cube.”
Greenwald joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview about his new book, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.”