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Glenn Greenwald (born 1967 in New York City) is an American former attorney and current political and legal blogger, and columnist at Salon Magazine. He is the author of How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy, both New York Times bestsellers.

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The extreme secrecy of the federal courts

Once conservatives became embarrassed by their cowardly warnings that we would all be killed if we held a 9/11 trial in New York, they switched to a new argument:  trials in a real court would lead to the disclosure of classified information that would ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  William Ayers,  Sarah Palin,  Rich Lowry,  John Walker Lindh

Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe

Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies.  Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence agencies allowed secret ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  George W. Bush,  Valdas Adamkus,  Al-Qaeda,  Binyam Mohamed

The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat

By: atheo on: 20.11.2009 [14:30 ] (94 reads) (7149 bytes) [c] Something quite amazing happened yesterday in Congress: the House Finance Committee — in a truly bipartisan and even trans-ideological vote — defied the banking industry, the Federal ...

From GLENN GREENWALD AND GENERAL JOE, UK Indymedia Newswire,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  Federal Reserve,  Ron Paul

The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials

NOTE:  A technical problem is preventing any content from being viewed after the first paragraph; Salon is working to fix the problem, and until then, this post can be read in its entirety "What I'm absolutely clear about is that I have complete ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  American Civil Liberties Union,  George W. Bush,  Omar Khadr,  Al-Qaeda

The Weekly Standard's smears indict only itself

The primary piece of incriminating evidence Joscelyn waves around in his little briefcase is this ACLU-produced video featuring five Muslim men who were held at Guantanamo without charges for years and then released.  In the video, they recount the ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  Al-Qaeda,  The Weekly Standard,  George W. Bush,  Moazzam Begg

CNN on our new "huge, huge bomb" to use against Iran

BLITZER: Regarding Iran, a new report raises some disturbing possibilities about its nuclear program, and that's prompting fears from the United States over how to respond. Let's bring in our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. Barbara, what are you ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  International Atomic Energy Agency,  Barbara Starr

Ex-Islamic radicals on what motivates -- and impedes -- extremism

The British journalist Johann Hari has written an absolutely vital article for The Independent, examining a growing movement of former hardened Islamic militants who are now devoted to teaching a more moderate and less fundamentalist Islam.  Hari ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Johann Hari,  Barack Obama,  Hosni Mubarak,  Jacob Weisberg

The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists"

Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear. As one definition cogently notes, "terror is a natural phenomenon, terrorism is the conscious exploitation of it."  Terrorism utilizes violence to coerce ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John Cornyn,  Pat Roberts

The new WH counsel and "Scooter Libby justice"

Here's the good news - for the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot. The name Dick Cheney will not appear on the ballot. . . . will be over. Sources in government say that White House Counsel Gregory Craig has ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Scooter Libby,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Dick Cheney

Detainees to get "the-state-always-wins" system of "justice"

So what we have here is not an announcement that all terrorism suspects are entitled to real trials in a real American court.  Instead, what we have is a multi-tiered justice system, where only certain individuals are entitled to real trials:  namely, ...

From GLENN GREENWALD, Salon,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dick Cheney,  US Department of Defense

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