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One of Greenwald's more notable ] clients was ] ]. Hale was eventually jailed and tried for ] of ] against ], who had been the federal judge in the trademark case. Although Greenwald was not involved in his criminal defense, between Hale's conviction and sentencing, Hale attempted to use Greenwald to convey a coded message, but Greenwald refused.<ref>, NBC5.com news, ], ]</ref> At the time, Hale was suspected of complicity in the recent double murder of Lefkow's husband and mother, but he was eventually cleared. He remains jailed for the earlier conviction. One of Greenwald's more notable ] clients was ] ]. Hale was eventually jailed and tried for ] of ] against ], who had been the federal judge in the trademark case. Although Greenwald was not involved in his criminal defense, between Hale's conviction and sentencing, Hale attempted to use Greenwald to convey a coded message, but Greenwald refused.<ref>, NBC5.com news, ], ]</ref> At the time, Hale was suspected of complicity in the recent double murder of Lefkow's husband and mother, but he was eventually cleared. He remains jailed for the earlier conviction. During the trial, Greenwald had secretly recorded confidential conversations between himself and several witness. The presiding judge found Greenwald’s behavior to be “inherently deceitful” and “unethical”. <ref>Anderson v. Hale, 159 F.Supp.2d 1116</ref>


Greenwald is openly gay and splits his time between ] and ]. He explains that this is because Brazil recognizes his same-sex relationship with his Brazilian partner, while the United States does not.<ref> Greenwald is openly gay and splits his time between ] and ]. He explains that this is because Brazil recognizes his same-sex relationship with his Brazilian partner, while the United States does not.<ref>

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Glenn Greenwald
Born1967
New York City, NY
OccupationAuthor, columnist, blogger, and attorney
NationalityAmerican
Website
http://salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

Glenn Greenwald (born 1967 in New York City) is a former American 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.

Greenwald frequently criticizes the policies of the George W. Bush administration and those who support or enable it, especially what he sees as the American news media's complicity in excusing those policies and echoing administration talking points rather than asking hard questions.

Background

Greenwald is a graduate of George Washington University and received a J.D. from New York University Law School. He worked at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz both before and briefly after he joined the New York bar in 1995. He left to co-found the law firm of Greenwald Christoph & Holland, now Greenwald Christoph, where he litigated cases concerning issues of U.S. constitutional law.

One of Greenwald's more notable First Amendment clients was neo-Nazi Matthew Hale. Hale was eventually jailed and tried for solicitation of murder against Joan Lefkow, who had been the federal judge in the trademark case. Although Greenwald was not involved in his criminal defense, between Hale's conviction and sentencing, Hale attempted to use Greenwald to convey a coded message, but Greenwald refused. At the time, Hale was suspected of complicity in the recent double murder of Lefkow's husband and mother, but he was eventually cleared. He remains jailed for the earlier conviction. During the trial, Greenwald had secretly recorded confidential conversations between himself and several witness. The presiding judge found Greenwald’s behavior to be “inherently deceitful” and “unethical”.

Greenwald is openly gay and splits his time between Brazil and New York City. He explains that this is because Brazil recognizes his same-sex relationship with his Brazilian partner, while the United States does not.

Unclaimed Territory and Salon.com

Greenwald started a blog, "Unclaimed Territory", in October 2005, focusing initially on the Valerie Plame affair and the investigation of Scooter Libby. When the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy became known two months later, he shifted primary attention to that. He quickly became known as a prominent legal critic of the George W. Bush administration. He has written for The American Conservative magazine and appeared as a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, Air America's "Rachel Maddow Show" and Majority Report and Public Radio International's To the Point. His reporting and analysis have been cited in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and several Congressional reports on executive power. In April 2006, he was given a 2005 Koufax Award for Best New Blog.

Greenwald attracted national media attention in January 2006 when he announced on his blog his finding that U.S. Senator Mike DeWine had proposed an easier standard for domestic eavesdropping by federal agents in 2002, but 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. This discovery became widely covered by the national media, which often credited Greenwald for breaking the story. For example, The Washington Post reported:

The Bush administration rejected a 2002 Senate proposal that would have made it easier for FBI agents to obtain surveillance warrants in terrorism cases, concluding that the system was working well and that it would likely be unconstitutional to lower the legal standard. ...

Democrats and national security law experts who oppose the NSA program say the Justice Department's opposition to the DeWine legislation seriously undermines arguments by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and others, who have said the NSA spying is constitutional and that surveillance warrants are often too cumbersome to obtain.

"It's entirely inconsistent with their current position," said Philip B. Heymann, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration who teaches law at Harvard University. "The only reason to do what they've been doing is because they wanted a lower standard than 'probable cause.' A member of Congress offered that to them, but they turned it down." ...

The DeWine amendment — first highlighted this week by Internet blogger Glenn Greenwald and widely publicized yesterday by the Project on Government Secrecy, an arm of the Federation of American Scientists — is the latest point of contention in a fierce political and legal battle over the NSA monitoring program.'

U.S. Senator Russ Feingold quoted Greenwald's blog on the floor of the Senate when he introduced Senate Resolution 398, to censure President Bush. In February, 2008, during debate over the FISA and telecom immunity bill, Sen. Chris Dodd quoted from Greenwald's blog during debate on the Senate floor.

In February 2007, Greenwald moved his blog to Salon Magazine, where he was named a contributing writer. At Salon, he has touched many of the same themes as in Unclaimed Territory, especially that the media is sympathetic to the GOP and also fails to challenge Bush administration claims for reasons of bias or laziness.

In his Salon column, Greenwald exposed factual errors in a Time Magazine column written by Joe Klein. Time initially published a subsequent comment as follows: "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." Greenwald noted that the text of the legislation does not require court review of individual targets, and Time's response, only repeating "what each side says," disregarded this fact. Time told Senator Russ Feingold that they intend to publish his letter to the editor in a coming issue.

Political views

While Greenwald describes himself as neither liberal nor conservative, he has frequently criticized the policies of the George W. Bush administration and conservatives who support it, claiming that "Bush followers are not conservatives".

Books

Greenwald wrote the New York Times best selling book, How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values From a President Run Amok. Pre-orders placed the book at #1 on Amazon.com in less than 24 hours, where it stayed for several days.

Greenwald's second book, A Tragic Legacy, is according to Greenwald "an examination of Bush's presidency 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)". A Tragic Legacy was released on June 26, 2007, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list, and was the #1 book on Amazon's Non-Fiction Best Seller List . Alan Colmes of Fox News described "A Tragic Legacy" as "the best book about the worst president. Glenn Greenwald is to this administration as they've been to the country: devastating."

Greenwald's third book, published by Random House and released in April 2008, is titled "Great American Hypocrites."

References

  1. Greenwald, Glenn (2007). A Tragic Legacy. Crown Publishers. pp. Jacket. ISBN 978-0-307-35419-8.
  2. Attorney: Hale Tried To Deliver Encoded Message From Jail, NBC5.com news, March 9, 2005
  3. Anderson v. Hale, 159 F.Supp.2d 1116
  4. Greenwald, Glenn (20 July 2006). "Response to right-wing personal attacks". Unclaimed Territory. Retrieved 2007-02-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. White House Dismissed '02 Surveillance Proposal, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Thursday, January 26, 2006 (page A04).
  7. Staff writer (transcript) (2006-03-31). "Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee: An Examination of the Call to Censure the President" (subscription required). Federal News Service. Federal Information Services Corporation. Retrieved 2008-01-11. Accessed via Lexis-Nexis.
  8. " "You Tube video of Sen. Chris Dodd on Senate floor during FISA debate". YouTube. 2008-02-08.
  9. Greenwald, Glenn (1 February 2007). "Blog News". Unclaimed Territory. Retrieved 2007-02-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. Jesse Singal (2007-09-17). "Glenn Greenwald: On terrorism, civil rights, and building a blog". Campus Progress. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
  11. Ken Silverstein. Six Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Campaign Coverage, February 21, 2008. Retrieved on April 5, 2008
  12. Greenwald, Glenn (November 21, 2007). "Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s". Salon.com. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) See also: "Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell". November 27, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. Klein, Joe (November 21, 2007). "The Tone-Deaf Democrats". TIME. Retrieved 2007-12-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. Singel, Ryan (November 27, 2007). "Time Correction of Wiretap Story Needs Own Correction". Wired. Retrieved 2007-12-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) See also: "What Others are Saying". Chicago Tribune. December 11, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Kurtz, Howard (December 6, 2007). "Kindergarten Cops". Online Column. Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2007-12-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Mitchell, Greg (November 29, 2007). "TIME Carries Correction on Hotly Disputed Joe Klein Column -- And So Does 'Chic Tribune'". Editor and Publisher. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. Greenwald, Glenn (2007-12-06). "Various Items". Salon. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
  16. Greenwald, Glenn (2006). How Would a Patriot Act?. pp. pg. 1. ISBN 0-9779440-0-x. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  17. Bush followers are not conservatives, Unclaimed Territory blog posting, January 16, 2006.
  18. "The New York Times Book Review" (PDF). June 11, 2006. Retrieved 2007-12-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. Joe Garofoli. Book tops charts before it's published, San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2006. Retrieved on April 5, 2008
  20. Greenwald, Glenn (November 9, 2006). "(no title)". Comments Forum. HaloScan. Retrieved 2007-12-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite uses generic title (help)
  21. Glenn Greenwald (2007-06-27). "Blogs and the establishment media". Salon Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  22. Staff. "The Nonprofit Bookstore". books XYZ. Acadiana Educational Endowment (AEE) and its affiliate, the American Public School Endowments (APSE). Retrieved 2008-01-11. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 37 (help)
  23. Glenn Greenwald. "Greenwald's blog". Retrieved 2008-03-09". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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