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'''Glenn Greenwald''' (born March 6, 1967) is an [[United States|American]] lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. Greenwald worked as a [[Constitutional law|constitutional]] and [[civil and political rights|civil rights litigator]] prior to becoming a contributor (columnist and [[blog]]ger) to ''[[Salon.com]]'', where he focuses on political and legal topics.<ref name=SalonProfile>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/profile/index.html|title=Glenn Greenwald: Profile|work=[[Salon.com]]|publisher=Salon Media Group, Inc|accessdate=2008-12-13}}</ref> He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news|title=What Kind of Democrat Will Specter Be?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/what-kind-of-democrat-will-specter-be/|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-04-28 | date=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes1>{{cite news|title=Does Bipartisanship Matter?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/does-bipartisanship-matter/|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-02-23 | date=2009-02-23}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes2>{{cite news|title=When Can Bonus Contracts Be Broken?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/when-bonus-contracts-can-be-broken/?scp=4&sq=Glenn%20Greenwald%20room%20for%20debate&st=cse|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-03-17 | date=2009-03-17}}</ref>, ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name=LaTimes>{{cite news|title=Bush's Final Days|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-antle-greenwald2009-jan14-16,0,7145809.storygallery|work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[LAT]]|accessdate=2009-01-14}}</ref>, ''[[The American Conservative]]'',<ref name=TAC>{{cite web|title=Author Search: Glenn Greenwald|url=http://www.amconmag.com/search.html?v&m=3&author=Glenn+Greenwald&start=0&end=25|work=[[The American Conservative]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Ron Unz]]|accessdate=2008-12-14}} The Search facilty (which times out after linking) lists 4 articles when "Glenn Greenwald" is provided as a search term selecting the "author" field: (1) "Madness of Crowds" ("Loyalty to Bush is the criterion for conservatism."); (2) "Selective Amnesia" ("Being a pro-war pundit means never having to say you're wrong."); (3) "Watching the Detectives" (a review of ''State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration'', by [[James Risen]]); and (4) "Authoritarian Temptation" ("In an age of expansive executive power, the take-no-prisoners style that made [[Rudy Giuliani|Giuliani]] a respected mayor might be taken literally.")</ref> ''[[The National Interest]]'',<ref name=NIO>{{cite web|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=The Perilous Punditocracy|url=http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17444|work=[[The National Interest]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[The Nixon Center]]|date=2008-04-25|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref> and ''[[In These Times]]''.<ref name=ITT>{{cite web|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=Author Profile:Glenn Greenwald|url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/profile/3753|work=Author Profile: Glenn Greenwald|work=[[In These Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Joel Bleifuss]]|date=2006-07-21|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref><ref name=Rechecking>{{cite journal|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=Rechecking the Balance of Powers|url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2730/rechecking_the_balance_of_powers/|journal=[[In These Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Joel Bleifuss]]|volume=30|issue=8|date=2006-07-21|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref>
'''Glenn Greenwald''' (born March 6, 1967) is an [[United States|American]] lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. Greenwald worked as a [[Constitutional law|constitutional]] and [[civil and political rights|civil rights litigator]] prior to becoming a contributor (columnist and [[blog]]ger) to ''[[Salon.com]]'', where he focuses on political and legal topics.<ref name=SalonProfile>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/profile/index.html|title=Glenn Greenwald: Profile|work=[[Salon.com]]|publisher=Salon Media Group, Inc|accessdate=2008-12-13}}</ref> He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news|title=What Kind of Democrat Will Specter Be?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/what-kind-of-democrat-will-specter-be/|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-04-28 | date=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes1>{{cite news|title=Does Bipartisanship Matter?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/does-bipartisanship-matter/|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-02-23 | date=2009-02-23}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes2>{{cite news|title=When Can Bonus Contracts Be Broken?|url=http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/when-bonus-contracts-can-be-broken/?scp=4&sq=Glenn%20Greenwald%20room%20for%20debate&st=cse|work=[[The New York Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[NYT]]|accessdate=2009-03-17 | date=2009-03-17}}</ref>, ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name=LaTimes>{{cite news|title=Bush's Final Days|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-antle-greenwald2009-jan14-16,0,7145809.storygallery|work=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[LAT]]|accessdate=2009-01-14}}</ref>, ''[[The American Conservative]]'',<ref name=TAC>{{cite web|title=Author Search: Glenn Greenwald|url=http://www.amconmag.com/search.html?v&m=3&author=Glenn+Greenwald&start=0&end=25|work=[[The American Conservative]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Ron Unz]]|accessdate=2008-12-14}} The Search facilty (which times out after linking) lists 4 articles when "Glenn Greenwald" is provided as a search term selecting the "author" field: (1) "Madness of Crowds" ("Loyalty to Bush is the criterion for conservatism."); (2) "Selective Amnesia" ("Being a pro-war pundit means never having to say you're wrong."); (3) "Watching the Detectives" (a review of ''State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration'', by [[James Risen]]); and (4) "Authoritarian Temptation" ("In an age of expansive executive power, the take-no-prisoners style that made [[Rudy Giuliani|Giuliani]] a respected mayor might be taken literally.")</ref> ''[[The National Interest]]'',<ref name=NIO>{{cite web|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=The Perilous Punditocracy|url=http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17444|work=[[The National Interest]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[The Nixon Center]]|date=2008-04-25|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref> and ''[[In These Times]]''.<ref name=ITT>{{cite web|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=Author Profile:Glenn Greenwald|url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/profile/3753|work=Author Profile: Glenn Greenwald|work=[[In These Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Joel Bleifuss]]|date=2006-07-21|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref><ref name=Rechecking>{{cite journal|author=Glenn Greenwald|title=Rechecking the Balance of Powers|url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2730/rechecking_the_balance_of_powers/|journal=[[In These Times]]|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Joel Bleifuss]]|volume=30|issue=8|date=2006-07-21|accessdate=2008-12-14}}</ref>


Greenwald is the author of three books: ''[[How Would a Patriot Act?]]'' (2006) and ''[[A Tragic Legacy]]'' (2007), both [[New York Times bestseller]]s; and ''[[Great American Hypocrites]]'' (2008).
Greenwald is the author of three books: ''[[How to Hate Your Own People]]'' (2006) and ''[[A Lesson in Being a Self-Hating Jew]]'' (2007), both [[New York Times bestseller]]s; and ''[[Great Ways to Meet Men in Truck Stops]]'' (2008).


In March, 2009, he was selected, along with Democracy Now's [[Amy Goodman]], as the recipient of the first annual [[Izzy Award]] by the Park Center for Independent Media, an award named after famed independent journalist [[I. F. Stone|I.F. "Izzy" Stone]] and devoted to rewarding excellence in independent journalism. The selection panel cited Greenwald's "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception and controversial issues." <ref name="Ithaca Award">{{cite web|url=http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646|title=Glenn Greenwald And Amy Goodman Share Inaugural Izzy Award For Independent Media|work=Ithaca News Release)|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Ithaca College]]|date=March 5, 2009|accessdate=2009-03-12}}</ref>
In March, 2009, he was selected, along with Democracy Now's [[Amy Goodman]], as the recipient of the first annual [[Jizzy Award]] by the Park Center for Independent Media, an award named after famed independent journalist [[I. F. Stone|I.F. "Izzy" Stone]] and devoted to rewarding excellence in independent journalism. The selection panel cited Greenwald's "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception and controversial issues." <ref name="Ithaca Award">{{cite web|url=http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646|title=Glenn Greenwald And Amy Goodman Share Inaugural Izzy Award For Independent Media|work=Ithaca News Release)|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[Ithaca College]]|date=March 5, 2009|accessdate=2009-03-12}}</ref>


His commentaries "on surveillance issues and separation of powers" have been cited in ''[[The New York Times]]'', in ''[[The Washington Post]]'', in [[United States Senate]] floor debates, and in [[United States House of Representatives|House]] "official ... reports on executive power abuses,"<ref name=ACLU2008>{{cite web|url=http://www.aclu.org/conference/2008/speakers.html|title=Glenn Greenwald|work=Speakers' Biographies (Stand Up For Freedom: 2008 ACLU Membership Conference)|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]]|date=June 8–10, 2008|accessdate=2008-12-16}}</ref> and he appears on various radio and television programs as a guest political [[pundit (expert)|pundit]].<ref name=SalonRadio>There is a dedicated page with a subscribable [[Web feed]] to his media show [[podcast]]s at ''[[Salon.com|Salon Radio]]'' called ''Glenn Greenwald Radio''.</ref>
His commentaries "on surveillance issues and separation of powers" have been cited in ''[[The New York Times]]'', in ''[[The Washington Post]]'', in [[United States Senate]] floor debates, and in [[United States House of Representatives|House]] "official ... reports on executive power abuses,"<ref name=ACLU2008>{{cite web|url=http://www.aclu.org/conference/2008/speakers.html|title=Glenn Greenwald|work=Speakers' Biographies (Stand Up For Freedom: 2008 ACLU Membership Conference)|format=[[World Wide Web|Web]]|publisher=[[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]]|date=June 8–10, 2008|accessdate=2008-12-16}}</ref> and he appears on various radio and television programs as a guest political [[pundit (expert)|pundit]].<ref name=SalonRadio>There is a dedicated page with a subscribable [[Web feed]] to his media show [[podcast]]s at ''[[Salon.com|Salon Radio]]'' called ''Glenn Greenwald Radio''.</ref>

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Glenn Greenwald
Photo © David dos Santos
Photo © David dos Santos
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationB.A., 1990
J.D., 1994
Alma materGeorge Washington University
New York University Law School
Genrenon-fiction, political and legal commentary
SubjectU.S. politics, law
Notable worksHow Would a Patriot Act?
A Tragic Legacy
Website
http://salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

Glenn Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator prior to becoming a contributor (columnist and blogger) to Salon.com, where he focuses on political and legal topics.[1] He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times[2][3][4], The Los Angeles Times[5], The American Conservative,[6] The National Interest,[7] and In These Times.[8][9]

Greenwald is the author of three books: How to Hate Your Own People (2006) and A Lesson in Being a Self-Hating Jew (2007), both New York Times bestsellers; and Great Ways to Meet Men in Truck Stops (2008).

In March, 2009, he was selected, along with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, as the recipient of the first annual Jizzy Award by the Park Center for Independent Media, an award named after famed independent journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone and devoted to rewarding excellence in independent journalism. The selection panel cited Greenwald's "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception and controversial issues." [10]

His commentaries "on surveillance issues and separation of powers" have been cited in The New York Times, in The Washington Post, in United States Senate floor debates, and in House "official ... reports on executive power abuses,"[11] and he appears on various radio and television programs as a guest political pundit.[12]

Background

Greenwald was born on March 6, 1967, in New York City, where he still lives part of the year.[1][13] He earned a B.A. from George Washington University in 1990 and a J.D. from New York University Law School in 1994.[1] During law school, he worked as an intern and Summer Associate at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and after graduation, he practiced law in the Litigation Department at Wachtell, Lipton (1994–1995); in 1996 he co-founded his own litigation firm, called Greenwald Christoph & Holland (later renamed Greenwald Christoph PC), where he litigated cases concerning issues of U.S. constitutional law and civil rights.[1][13]

One of Greenwald's most notable First Amendment clients was Matthew Hale, a leader of the organization formerly known as the World Church of the Creator and now known as the Creativity Movement, who, on April 6, 2005, was sentenced to a 40-year prison term for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill federal judge Joan Lefkow[14] and incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado.[15] Although he "represented Hale and his organization in several civil cases" and was not involved in Hale's criminal defense case, after the subsequent killing of Judge Lefkow's mother and husband while Hale was incarcerated for the earlier conviction, Greenwald was enlisted by Hale's mother, Evelyn Hutcheson, to deliver a purportedly "encoded message" from the imprisoned Hale to one of his supporters on the outside; but, despite believing that Hale had been wrongfully convicted and uninvolved in the more recent murders, Greenwald declined to do so.[16][17]

In his entry in Unclaimed Territory for July 10, 2006, Greenwald explains, "I decided voluntarily to wind down my practice in 2005 because I could, and because, after ten years, I was bored with litigating full-time and wanted to do other things which I thought were more engaging and could make more of an impact, including political writing."[13]

In the same entry, Greenwald observes that he has been openly gay for 20 years and that, while he has lived in the United States all his life, he divides his time between New York City and Rio de Janeiro, the hometown of his male partner:

Revealingly, American law prevents the recognition of our relationship as a ground for him to live in the United States, while Brazilian law recognizes same-sex relationships for visa and immigration purposes. As a result, for the past year [2006], I have spent substantial time in Brazil while also having a residence in New York. Spending substantial time in another country does not make one an 'expatriate.' And even those American citizens who do give up American residence and live abroad retain full rights of citizenship, including voting rights. But I have not done so.[13]

According to Ken Silverstein's interview with Greenwald published in Harper's Magazine on February 22, 2008, conducted by telephone while Greenwald was in Brazil, he lives there "much of the time."[18] On July 22, 2008, when Greenwald participated in a debate with Cass Sunstein, an adviser to then Senator Barack Obama, moderated by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, their exchange was also conducted by telephone from Brazil.[19]

In a May, 2008 interview, Greenwald explained that "even though Brazil has the largest Catholic population of any country in the world" and "was a military dictatorship until 1985": "I’m able to obtain from the Brazilian government a permanent visa because my Brazilian partner’s government recognizes our relationship for immigration purposes, while the government of my supposedly 'free,' liberty-loving country enacted a law explicitly barring such recognition."[20]

Political views

In the "Preface" to his first book, How Would a Patriot Act? (2006), Greenwald begins by giving some of his own personal political history, describing himself as at first neither liberal nor conservative but as one who had taken positions that can be ascribed to both liberals and conservatives, voting neither for George W. Bush nor for any of his rivals, indeed not voting at all.[21] Bush's ascendancy to the U.S. Presidency "changed" Greenwald's previous uninvolved political attitude toward the electoral process "completely":

Over the past five years, a creeping extremism has taken hold of our federal government, and it is threatening to radically alter our system of government and who we are as a nation. This extremism is neither conservative nor liberal in nature, but is instead driven by theories of unlimited presidential power that are wholly alien, and antithetical, to the core political values that have governed this country since its founding"; for, "the fact that this seizure of ever-expanding presidential power is largely justified through endless, rank fear-mongering—fear of terrorists, specifically—means that not only our system of government is radically changing, but so, too, are our national character, our national identity, and what it means to be American."[21]

Believing that "It is incumbent upon all Americans who believe in that system, bequeathed to us by the founders, to defend it when it is under assault and in jeopardy. And today it is," he stresses: "I did not arrive at these conclusions eagerly or because I was predisposed by any previous partisan viewpoint. Quite the contrary."[21]

Ostensibly resistant to applying ideological labels to himself, he emphasizes repeatedly that he is a strong advocate for U.S. constitutional "balance of powers"[9] and for constitutionally-protected civil and political rights in his writings and public appearances.[1]

Throughout them he has relentlessly criticized the policies of the George W. Bush administration and those who support or enable it, arguing that most of the American "Corporate News Media" excuse Bush's policies and echo administration talking points rather than asking hard questions.[18][22]

Entitling his Unclaimed Territory blog entry for January 16, 2006, "Bush Followers Are Not Conservatives," Greenwald explains this position:

It has long been clear that there is nothing remotely "conservative" about this Administration, at least in the sense that conservative ideology has stood for a restrained Federal Government which was to be distrusted. There has been a long line of decidedly un-conservative actions by this Administration -- from exploding discretionary domestic spending to record deficits to an emergency convening of the Federal Government to intervene in one woman’s end-of-life decisions to attempts to federalize, even constitutionalize, marriage laws – all of which could not be any more alien to what has been meant by "conservatism" for the past 40 years.[23]

In his various media guest appearances and publications, Greenwald elaborates his political views, which he also summarizes succinctly in responding to "six questions ... about political campaign coverage and the media" that Ken Silverstein posed to him in an article published in Harper's Magazine on February 21, 2008.[18]

Greenwald holds a favourable view of drug liberalization. He conducted research, commissioned by the Cato Institute, on the effect of the abolition of all criminal penalties for personal drug possession in Portugal, which occurred in 2001. According to Greenwald, "decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success... It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does"[24].

Unclaimed Territory

Greenwald started his blog Unclaimed Territory in October 2005, focusing initially on the investigation pertaining to the Plame affair, the CIA leak grand jury investigation, and the federal indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Two months later, when the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance controversy became news, he began to focus primarily on that issue. In January 2006 Greenwald attracted national media attention after he wrote in Unclaimed Territory that U.S. Senator Mike DeWine had proposed an easier standard for domestic eavesdropping by federal agents in 2002 but that the administration had declined any interest in the legislation and advised him that it would probably be unconstitutional, a direct contradiction of much of the later rationale for the NSA warrantless domestic spying program once it was known; Dan Eggen, of The Washington Post, for example, observed that "The DeWine amendment" — "the latest point of contention in a fierce political and legal battle over the NSA monitoring program" — was "first highlighted ... by Internet blogger Glenn Greenwald and widely publicized yesterday by the Project on Government Secrecy, an arm of the Federation of American Scientists...."[25]

In March 2006, Senator Russ Feingold quoted Greenwald's comments in Unclaimed Territory on the floor of the U.S. Senate when he introduced Senate Resolution 398, to censure President Bush.[26]

In April 2006, Unclaimed Territory received the 2005 Koufax Award for "Best New Blog".[1]

In February 2008, during a debate over the FISA and Telecom Immunity bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate broadcast on C-Span, Senator Chris Dodd quoted Greenwald's comments posted in Unclaimed Territory.[27]

Salon.com

In February 2007, Greenwald became a contributing writer at Salon.com, and the new column and blog superseded Unclaimed Territory, though Salon.com prominently features hyperlinks to it in Greenwald's dedicated biographical section.[28][29]

Joe Klein

In his Salon.com column of November 21, 2007, Greenwald documented factual errors in a national column written by Joe Klein in Time magazine.[30][31][32] In response to such criticism, Time subsequently added an intended clarification (or quasi-retraction) in an online version of Klein's disputed column — "In the original version of this story, Joe Klein wrote that the House Democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow a court review of individual foreign surveillance targets. Republicans believe the bill can be interpreted that way, but Democrats don't." — but Greenwald observed that the text of the legislation does not require court review of individual targets, and Time 's response repeating "what each side says" disregards that point.[33][34] Pertaining to this controversy, Time published letters from U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and others in its later issues of the magazine.[35][36]

Anthrax reporting

In August 2008, following the suicide of terrorist suspect Bruce Ivins, Greenwald wrote a series of long entries, detailing the evidence that there has been a cover-up by individuals in the US government and ABC News in the 2001 anthrax attacks, calling for "a full-scale Congressional hearing or even an external Commission of the type that investigated the 9/11 attacks -- endowed with full subpoena power -- to examine all of the unresolved issues here."[37] Greenwald also expressed interest in the identity of the individual who allegedly told ABC News's Brian Ross falsely in 2001 that the anthrax contained bentonite and falsely linking the anthrax attack to Saddam Hussein and argued that the broadcasting of this claim by ABC News was instrumental in guiding the US media and public opinion towards war with Iraq; subsequently, according to Dan Gillmor, who prominently cites and links to Greenwald in an article published in the Guardian.co.uk, Brian Ross refused to divulge the identity of the individual who purportedly misled him.[38]

John O. Brennan

After U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's victory in November 2008, the media reported that former CIA official John O. Brennan, who had served as Senator Obama's top intelligence adviser during his 2008 election campaign, was the leading candidate to be named by Obama as either the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) or the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI).[39] In a lengthy essay published in Salon.com, Greenwald argued that Brennan had supported many controversial detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration, including "enhanced interrogation tactics" and extraordinary rendition.[40] Other notable writers such as Andrew Sullivan credited Greenwald's Salon.com essay as the impetus for their opposition to Brennan's nomination.[41] On November 24, Brennan wrote a letter to President-elect Obama withdrawing his name from consideration for any top intelligence posts, citing "strong criticism in some quarters."[41] Media reports and other political pundits cited the "firestorm in liberal blogs" as the cause of Brennan's withdrawal.[42][43]

Books

Greenwald's first book, How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok, published by Working Assets, in 2006, was a New York Times bestseller[44] and ranked number one on Amazon.com both before its publication due to pre-orders based on attention from other bloggers and for several days after its release, ending its first week at number 293.[45]

A Tragic Legacy, his second book, aims to examine the presidency of George W. Bush "with an emphasis on his personality traits and beliefs that drove the presidency (along with an emphasis on how and why those personality traits have led to a presidency that has failed to historic proportions)."[46] Published in hardback by Crown, a division of Random House, on June 26, 2007, and later reprinted in a paperback edition by Three Rivers Press on April 8, 2008, it also appeared on "The New York Times Best Seller List" after its original release and was ranked number one for a day on Amazon.com's "Non-Fiction Best Seller List", before becoming number two the next day, also due to heavy "discussions and promotions by blogs -- a campaign catalyzed by Jane Hamsher [at FireDogLake]," according to Greenwald.[47]

His third book, entitled Great American Hypocrites, was published by Random House in April 2008, the same month that Three Rivers Press reissued A Tragic Legacy in paperback.[48]

Media appearances

Greenwald has appeared as a roundtable guest on ABC's Sunday morning news show "This Week," NPR's "All Things Considered," as well as numerous times on C-SPAN's Washington Journal; Pacifica Radio's syndicated series Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman[22]; on Public Radio International's To the Point; MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, "Morning Joe" and Dylan Ratigan's "Morning Meeting"; and on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume[49]. Greenwald has also become a regular guest on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal.[50][51], and is a regular guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show, and was a friend and favorite guest of Hewitt's frequent guest host, Dean Barnett.

Popularity

On August 24, 2008, the day before the start of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Denver, Colorado, Dan Amira of New York magazine ranked Greenwald as number 36 in his list of "top 40" most popular American political pundits.[52]

On January 22, 2009, Forbes named Greenwald one of the "25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media". The magazine placed him at number eighteen, just below Hendrik Hertzberg and just ahead of Andrew Sullivan.[53]

On July 6, 2009, former MSNBC host Dan Abrams launched a new site, Mediaite, reporting on media figures. The site ranked all print and online columnists in America by influence. Greenwald was ranked # 9, immediately behind Charles Krauthammer.[54][55]

In August 2009, the Web search engine Technorati ranked Glenn Greenwald's Salon.com blog as number 45 in its "Top 100" list of "the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority" (in its case, 2,056 blog links in the past six months).[56][57]

In November, 2009, The Atlantic launched a new site, TheAtlanticWire.com, and named America's 50 most influential political pundits ("The Atlantic 50"). Greenwald was ranked #22 on the list.[58]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Glenn Greenwald: Profile". Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  2. ^ "What Kind of Democrat Will Specter Be?" (Web). The New York Times. NYT. 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  3. ^ "Does Bipartisanship Matter?" (Web). The New York Times. NYT. 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
  4. ^ "When Can Bonus Contracts Be Broken?" (Web). The New York Times. NYT. 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  5. ^ "Bush's Final Days" (Web). The Los Angeles Times. LAT. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
  6. ^ "Author Search: Glenn Greenwald" (Web). The American Conservative. Ron Unz. Retrieved 2008-12-14. The Search facilty (which times out after linking) lists 4 articles when "Glenn Greenwald" is provided as a search term selecting the "author" field: (1) "Madness of Crowds" ("Loyalty to Bush is the criterion for conservatism."); (2) "Selective Amnesia" ("Being a pro-war pundit means never having to say you're wrong."); (3) "Watching the Detectives" (a review of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, by James Risen); and (4) "Authoritarian Temptation" ("In an age of expansive executive power, the take-no-prisoners style that made Giuliani a respected mayor might be taken literally.")
  7. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-04-25). "The Perilous Punditocracy" (Web). The National Interest. The Nixon Center. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  8. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2006-07-21). "Author Profile:Glenn Greenwald" (Web). In These Times. Joel Bleifuss. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  9. ^ a b Glenn Greenwald (2006-07-21). "Rechecking the Balance of Powers" (Web). In These Times. 30 (8). Joel Bleifuss. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  10. ^ "Glenn Greenwald And Amy Goodman Share Inaugural Izzy Award For Independent Media" (Web). Ithaca News Release). Ithaca College. March 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  11. ^ "Glenn Greenwald" (Web). Speakers' Biographies (Stand Up For Freedom: 2008 ACLU Membership Conference). ACLU. June 8–10, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
  12. ^ There is a dedicated page with a subscribable Web feed to his media show podcasts at Salon Radio called Glenn Greenwald Radio.
  13. ^ a b c d Glenn Greenwald (2006-07-20). "Response to Right-wing Personal Attacks: My Law Practice; My Sexual Orientation; Where I Live" (Web). Unclaimed Territory. Glenn Greenwald. Retrieved 2007-02-02. In the entry, he describes and sets the record straight about his legal career and related professional and personal matters.
  14. ^ Jodi Wilgoren (2003-01-09). "White Supremacist Is Held in Ordering Judge's Death". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer for Mr. Hale, said the charges filed today might stem from a misinterpretation of a statement by his client on the Internet that 'we are in a state of war with Judge Lefkow.' ... 'They are probably trying to take things he said along the lines of political advocacy and turn it into a crime,' Mr. Greenwald said. 'The F.B.I. may have interpreted this protected speech as a threat against a federal judge, but it's probably nothing more than some heated rhetoric.' ... Mr. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, would not provide details about Mr. Hale's case, including whom he had solicited for the murder, whether money was involved, how officials discovered the plot or whether Judge Lefkow was in danger.
  15. ^ "Locate a Federal Inmate: Matthew F. Hale". Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
  16. ^ Jodi Wilgoren (2005-03-09). "Supremacist Sent Code From Jail, Lawyer Says". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-12-13. Mr. Greenwald, who said he believed that Mr. Hale was wrongly imprisoned [as well as that he was not involved in the later killings of Judge Lefkow's mother and husband], said he did not recall the exact message Ms. Hutcheson relayed to him, or the person it was intended for, but that he had declined to deliver it. He called the message 'a caricature of what a coded message would be.'
  17. ^ On March 10, 2005, the Chicago police revealed that Bart Ross, a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that Lefkow had dismissed, admitted to the murders of her mother and husband in a suicide note written before shooting himself during a routine traffic stop in Wisconsin the previous evening. See "Police: Wisconsin Death Has Lefkow Tie". The Chicago Tribune. 2005-03-10. Retrieved 2008-12-13. Also Wednesday [March 9], Glenn Greenwald, a New York attorney who had represented Hale in several past civil lawsuits, said Hale's mother asked him to pass a clearly coded message from Hale to a follower about 2 to 2½ months ago. ... Greenwald said he declined to deliver the message because he didn't understand what Hale meant in the note.
  18. ^ a b c Ken Silverstein (2008-02-21). "Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  19. ^ Amy Goodman (2009-07-22). "Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald" (Web transcript and MP3 audio clip). Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2008-12-13. {{cite web}}: Text "publisherPacifica Radio" ignored (help) (Includes rush transcript.)
  20. ^ Art of The Possible (2006-01-16). "Interview with Glenn Greenwald". Art of the Possible Blog. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  21. ^ a b c Glenn Greenwald. "Preface" (Web (PDF)). How Would a Patriot Act?. San Francisco: Working Assets, 2006. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  22. ^ a b Amy Goodman (2008-04-18). "Great American Hypocrites: Glenn Greenwald on the Corporate Media's Failures in the 2008 Race". Democracy Now!. Pacifica Radio. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  23. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2006-01-16). "Bush Followers Are Not Conservatives". Unclaimed Territory Blog. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  24. ^ Szalavitz, Maia (April 26, 2009). "Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?". TIME. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
  25. ^ Dan Eggen (2006-01-26). "White House Dismissed '02 Surveillance Proposal" (Web and Print). The Washington Post. p. A04. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  26. ^ Staff writer (2006-03-31). "Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee: An Examination of the Call to Censure the President" (Transcript). Federal News Service. Federal News Service, Inc. Retrieved 2008-01-11. (Subscription required for direct access to transcripts; accessed via Lexis-Nexis.)
  27. ^ " "20080211 Senator Dodd Quotes Glenn Greenwald on FISA 8:30pm". C-Span. YouTube. 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  28. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2007-02-01). "Blog News". Unclaimed Territory. Glenn Greenwald. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
  29. ^ Jesse Singal (2007-09-17). "Glenn Greenwald: On Terrorism, Civil Rights, and Building a Blog" (Web). Campus Progress (Blog). Retrieved 2008-04-05.
  30. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2007-11-21). "Joe Klein: Both Factually False and Stuck in the 1980s" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  31. ^ See also the four updates added in: Glenn Greenwald (2007-11-27). "Everything That Is Rancid and Corrupt with Modern Journalism: The Nutshell" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  32. ^ Joe Klein (2007-11-21). "The Tone-Deaf Democrats". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  33. ^ Ryan Singel (2007-11-27). "Time Correction of Wiretap Story Needs Own Correction". Wired.com. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  34. ^ See also: "What Others are Saying". The Chicago Tribune. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-12. Howard Kurtz (2007-12-06). "Media Notes: Kindergarten Cops". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2008-12-12. Greg Mitchell (2007-11-29). "TIME Carries Correction on Hotly Disputed Joe Klein Column -- And So Does 'Chic Tribune'". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  35. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2007-12-06). "Various Items" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  36. ^ Russ Feingold (2007-12-06). "[Letter to the Editor]" (Web). Time. Time Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  37. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-08-05). "The FBI's Emerging, Leaking Case against Ivins" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-15. [Includes four updates.]
  38. ^ Dan Gillmor (2008-08-04). "Was the US Public Misled about the Anthrax Attacks?". Guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved 2008-12-15. ABC News should reveal the sources of its false report that the anthrax attacks after 9/11 were tied to Saddam Hussein.
  39. ^ Marc Ambinder (2008-11-20). "Brennan, Harding Slated for Top Intelligence Jobs". TheAtlantic.com.
  40. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-11-16). "John Brennan and Bush's Interrogation/Detention Policies" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  41. ^ a b Andrew Sullivan (2008-11-21). "No Way. No How. No Brennan" (Web). The Daily Dish of No Party or Clique (Blog). TheAtlantic.com. Retrieved 2008-12-12. Cite error: The named reference "Sullivan" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  42. ^ The Associated Press (2008-11-25). "Brennan Out Of Running for Top Intelligence Post" (Web). International Herald Tribune. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  43. ^ Jane Hamsher (2008-11-25). "'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Tuesday November 25, 2008: Transcript" (Web). The Rachel Maddow Show. MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-12-12. I think as Atrios said, 'Behold the power of Glenn Greenwald.' ... Glenn, writing at Salon.com, had made a singular case against Brennan and said really, 'this is unacceptable.'
  44. ^ "The New York Times Book Review Best Sellers" (PDF). The New York Times Book Review. The New York Times Company. 2006-06-11. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  45. ^ Joe Garofoli (2006-05-12). "Book Tops Charts Before It's Published". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-12-12. There's been no advertising for "How Would a Patriot Act." Didn't need any. It was more important to get love from a handful of key bloggers, who plugged the 144-page book on their sites, leading to a virtually overnight advance sales bump this week -- and a second printing of 20,000 copies. "Patriot" remained at the peak of the Amazon charts for days. ... While "Patriot" parachuted to 293th place by week's end after hitting No. 1, the book's publisher, the San Francisco phone company and liberal benefactor Working Assets, has been encouraged to continue its fledgling program of plucking sharp bloggers to write politically pointed books.
  46. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2006-11-09). "Untitled Comments: #54519". Comments Forum. HaloScan. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  47. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2007-06-27). "Blogs and the Establishment Media". Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  48. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-03-09). "Glenn Greenwald:Various Items" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2000-12-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  49. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-12-23). "Some observations after being involved in a Fox News report" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  50. ^ Glenn Greenwald (2008-12-13). "Some Observations on This Week's Television Appearances" (Web). Salon.com. Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  51. ^ Bill Moyers (2009-04-03). "Independent Journalism" (Web). PBS. PBS. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  52. ^ Dan Amira (2008-08-24). "Intelligencer:Conventional Wisdom" (Web). New York (News & Features). Retrieved 2008-12-12. Who's the most popular? We developed a highly [sic] scientific formula to measure their star power, counting blog, newspaper, magazine, and TV-news mentions so far this year, Google hits, and how many presidential debates (in the primaries or planned for the general election) they moderated. Then, each pundit's popularity in each category was calculated as a percentage of the highest score, and those five percentages were averaged. (So, theoretically, a dominating pundit who topped each tally would end up with a popularity score of 100.) Here's the top 40. ...
  53. ^ Tunku Varadarajan; Elisabeth Eaves; Hana R. Alberts (January 22, 2009). "25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media". Forbes. Retrieved August 18, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  54. ^ "Power Grid: Print/Online Columnists" (Web). Mediaite. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  55. ^ "Food for Thought" (Web). Paul Krugman, NYT. 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  56. ^ "Top 100 Blogs" (Web). Technorati. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
  57. ^ "What Is Authority?". Support at Technorati. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  58. ^ "The Atlantic 50" (Web). Retrieved 2009-12-16.

References

"Glenn Greenwald Exposes Frank Gaffney". Crooks and Liars, February 16, 2007. [Includes 3-part MP3 clip of radio interview broadcast on the Alan Colmes Show, on Fox News Radio, during which Greenwald debates Frank Gaffney.]
"Glenn Greenwald on Joe Klein, Dave Tomlin on Bilal Hussein". Counterspin, November 30, 2007 - December 6, 2007. Accessed December 12, 2008. [ MP3 clips hosted on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).]
Goodman, Amy."Great American Hypocrites: Glenn Greenwald on the Corporate Media's Failures in the 2008 Race. Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio, April 18, 2008. Accessed December 12, 2008. ("We speak with Glenn Greenwald, author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. [includes rush transcript].")
–––. "Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald". Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio, July 22, 2008. Accessed December 13, 2008. (Includes rush transcript.)
Greenwald, Glenn. "Book Forum: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency". Cato Institute, August 7, 2007. [Panel discussion featuring Greenwald, "with comments by Lee Casey, Partner, Baker Hostetler." (Hyperlinked MP3 podcast and RealVideo formats.)]
–––. "Media: Glenn Greenwald at YearlyKos". Salon.com, August 7, 2007. Accessed December 13, 2008. [Video segment from Glenn Greenwald's panel at YearlyKos 2007, "where he stresses the continued need for adversarial, skeptical reporting." ("VideoDog" format.)]
Pitney, Nico. "A Secure America: Video: Glenn Greenwald Debates Spying Program On C-Span". Online posting of clip of program broadcast on C-SPAN, February 6, 2006. ThinkProgress.com, February 6, 2006. Accessed December 12, 2008. [Greenwald debates University of Virginia law professor Robert Turner.]
Silverstein, Ken. "Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage". Harper's Magazine, February 21, 2008. Accessed December 12, 2008.
Singal, Jesse, and Glenn Greenwald. "On Terrorism, Civil Rights, and Building a Blog". Campus Progress, September 17, 2007. Accessed December 12, 2008. [Interview.]

Bibliography

Greenwald, Glenn. Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. New York: Random House, 2008. ISBN 0-307-40802-7 (10). ISBN 978-0-307-40802-0 (13). (Also available as an E-book.)
–––. How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From A President Run Amok. San Francisco: Working Assets (Distrib. by Publishers Group West), 2006. ISBN 0-9779440-0-X (10). ISBN 978-0-9779440-0-2 (13).
–––. A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency. New York: Crown (Div. of Random House), 2007. ISBN 0-307-35419-9 (10). ISBN 978-0-307-35419-8 (13). (Hardback ed.) Three Rivers Press, 2008. ISBN 0-307-35428-8 (10). ISBN 978-0-307-35428-0 (13). (Paperback ed.)
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