One of the ways that some critics — including those in the mainstream media — seem to be trying to discredit the leaks about the NSA’s surveillance program is to suggest that Glenn Greenwald isn’t really a journalist.
Former CIA staffer Edward Snowden talked about a lot of things during a live Q&A on Monday hosted by the Guardian newspaper — but there were also some important questions that he neglected to answer.
The man who leaked top-secret documents from the NSA — about a digital surveillance program called PRISM that collected data from Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others — has come forward to speak about why he did it.
