{"id":27913,"date":"2020-02-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=27913"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:13:56","slug":"famed-american-journalist-under-attack-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2020\/02\/03\/famed-american-journalist-under-attack-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed American Journalist Under Attack in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Jan. 21, Brazilian prosecutors announced that the country has officially charged renowned American journalist Glenn Greenwald with the act of committing cybercrimes<\/a> in relation to a slew of damaging text messages<\/a> that were leaked from the hacked cell phones of several public officials.
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Greenwald, co-founder of online news publication The Intercept<\/a> and one of the key journalists who aided whistleblower Edward Snowden in his exposal<\/a> of the NSA\u2019s numerous top-secret global surveillance programs, has attracted animus from President Jair Bolsonaro and others within Brazil\u2019s government due to The Intercept\u2019s \u201cSecret Brazil Archive\u201d special investigation series<\/a> which has exposed the deep corruption surrounding those loyal to the Brazilian politician.
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In their 95-page criminal complaint, the prosecutors have accused Greenwald of conspiring with the hackers responsible for obtaining the secret text messages that he published, a claim which Greenwald denies.
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\u201cThe Bolsonaro government and the movement that supports it has made repeatedly clear that it does not believe in basic press freedoms,\u201d Greenwald told The Daily Beast.
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\u201cLess than two months ago, the Federal Police…stated explicitly that not only have I never committed any crime but that I exercised extreme caution as a journalist never even to get close to any participation…I did nothing more than do my job as a journalist\u2014ethically and within the law.\u201d
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Greenwald speaking at the Young Americans for Liberty\u2019s Civil Liberties tour at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona on Oct. 18, 2012. (Gage Skidmore\/Flickr) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Greenwald then took aim at the prosecutors who presented the allegation.
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\u201cThis denunciation\u2014brought by the same prosecutor who just tried and failed to criminally prosecute the head of the Brazilian Bar Association for criticizing Minister [Sergio] Moro\u2014is an obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported about Minister Moro and the Bolsonaro government.\u201d
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Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro with husband David Miranda and their two adopted children, has been in the Bolsonaro administration\u2019s sights since he reported last year that Brazil\u2019s \u201cOperation Car Wash<\/a>\u201d investigation was used to frame and arrest<\/a> the President\u2019s 2018 election opponent Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, founding member of Brazil\u2019s left-wing Workers\u2019 Party, under false corruption charges. With Lula in prison, Bolsonaro rose in the polls.
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