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HARDtalk: Glenn Greenwald - Journalist

28/11/2013

Glenn Greenwald - Journalist

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Has the media's persuit of leads from Edward Snowden's surveillance leaks gone far enough?

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the Edward Snowden leaks story, says his mission is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?

Thanks to Edward Snowden's leaking of American intelligence secrets, the whole world now knows the extent of US-UK surveillance of global phone and internet traffic. Have the revelations flagged up a corrosive infringement of individual liberty, or undermined efforts to protect the world from terrorism? HARDtalk speaks to journalist Glenn Greenwald - he broke the Snowden story. His mission, he says, is to hold power to account. Is this a journalistic crusade that has gone too far?

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