Our most critical debates, where did COVID come from?

Should we be involved in the war in Ukraine?

What happened with January 6th?

Was the FBI involved?

All of these debates that we ought to be having in a very vibrant way are instead being

closed off in favor of establishment pieties.

And I don't regard anything as more dangerous than that.

Glenn Greenwald founded a law firm in 1996, where he focused on First Amendment cases.

But after the September 11th attacks and the actions by the Bush administration that followed,

he began to write, accusing the federal government of violating Americans' civil liberties.

His work caught the attention of Edward Snowden, who provided Glenn and his team a plethora

of classified documents from the National Security Agency.

The UK Guardian published Glenn's reporting on this leak, which revealed the NSA was secretly gathering information on American citizens.

The work resulted in a journalism Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014.

Ten years after the reports, I asked Glenn what the reputation of our three-letter government agencies and Edward Snowden are like today.

After massive success with the Snowden leaks, Glenn co-founded the news organization The Intercept, with journalist Jeremy Sheihill and filmmaker loyal portraits,

who made the Academy Award-winning documentary Citizen-Four, which told the story of the journalists who worked with Snowden.

The Intercept's mission was to hold the most powerful governments and corporations accountable.

But in 2020, Portris was terminated, and Greenwald resigned after leadership attempted to censor his

work. The news organization they created had turned its back on their original vision.

Glenn has since gone full-time with his substack newsletter, a growing trend for journalists,

and a nightly news program called System Update, live exclusively on Rumble.

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