NSA-Leak Reporters Greenwald, Poitras To Return To US For Award Despite ‘Threatening Climate’
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, American journalists living abroad who broke the NSA leak stories supplied by classified documents from Edward Snowden, will return to the United States on Friday to accept a Polk Award for their reporting.
The pair – entering the US for the first time since they began publishing leaks that exposed the National Security Agency’s vast, global surveillance regime – will attend the Polk ceremony in New York City, where they will share the prestigious journalism award with Greenwald’s former colleague at The Guardian, Ewen MacAskill, and Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.
Greenwald, an American citizen who lives in Brazil, told The Huffington Post that he’s excited to return to the US because “certain factions in the US government have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists.”
Greenwald said his legal counsel has not received word from the US that the journalist – now leading billionaire eBay-founder Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media – would face charges upon return, or if he is tied to a grand jury investigation regarding the NSA leaks.
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