Glenn Greenwald Books

Glenn Greenwald 's riveting follow up to his acclaimed international best- seller No Place to Hide.

From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers) and the journalist who broke the story on NSA spying programs comes a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying by the NSA, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else.

The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacy In this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing the faulty ideals upon which George W. Bush built his policies. Enlightening and eye-opening, this is a powerful look at the man whose incapability and cowboy logic have left America at risk.

By Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with documents from the Snowden archive. Fearless and incisive, No Place to Hide has already sparked outrage around the globe and been hailed by voices across the political spectrum as an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

Der 6. Juni 2013 markiert nichts weniger als eine Zeitenwende – den Übergang vom freien Internet zum totalitären. Im Guardian deckte der Jurist und Journalist Glenn Greenwald auf, was der Ex-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden ihm anvertraut hat. Die amerikanische Sicherheitsbehörde NSA überwacht und speichert weltweit jede Form der digitalen Kommunikation. Die Daten-Server von Google, Yahoo, Microsoft und Facebook werden gegen Bezahlung systematisch abgesaugt. Alle Verschlüsselungstechniken können umgangen werden. Der globale Finanztransfer ist voll einsehbar. Und: Snowdens Dokumente belegen auch, dass die deutsche Regierung hierüber informiert war. Detailliert analysiert Greenwald die Hintergründe des NSA-Skandals und die Folgen für uns alle. Die totale Überwachung ist längst Realität. Es gibt keine Privatsphäre mehr. Die Grundrechte werden im Namen der Sicherheit eingeschränkt. Dieses Buch ist der spektakuläre Höhe- und Schlusspunkt der Snowden-Enthüllungen.