Guardian journalist to release new US spying revelations from Snowden leaks
Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations “within the next 10 days or so” on secret US surveillance of the internet.
“The articles we have published so far are a very small part of the revelations that ought to be published,” Greenwald on Tuesday told a Brazilian congressional hearing that is investigating the US internet surveillance in Brazil.
“There will certainly be many more revelations on spying by the US government and how they are invading the communications of Brasil and Latin America,” he said in Portuguese.
I speak with [Snowden] a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate
The Rio de Janeiro-based columnist for Britain’s Guardian newspaper said he has recruited the help of experts to understand some of the 15,000 to 20,000 classified documents from the National Security Agency that Snowden passed him, some of which are “very long and complex and take time to read”.
Greenwald said he does not believe the pro-transparency website WikiLeaks had obtained a package of documents from Snowden, and that only he and filmmaker Laura Poitras have complete archives of the leaked material.
Greenwald said Snowden, who was in hiding in Hong Kong before flying to Russia in late June, was happy to leave a Moscow airport after being granted temporary asylum, and pleased that he had stirred up a worldwide debate on internet privacy and secret US surveillance programmes used to monitor e-mails.
“I speak with him a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate,” Greenwald told the Brazilian legislators. “He is very well.”
“He is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on internet privacy and US spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform,” Greenwald said.