Glenn Greenwald

British High Court rejects U.S./British cover-up of torture evidence - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Good to know that the UK High Court doesn't bow to political pressure, as ours does. Read Full Story

Glenn Greenwald / Salon : Is the Right's attack on Obama's legitimacy new or unprecedented?   —  (updated below - Update II)  —  Several people objected in comments, emails and other places to my argument yesterday that what Rep. Joe Wilson did — though dumb and juvenile — was hardly some grave threat to the Republic … Read Full Story

Glenn Greenwald / Salon : Beltway culture, checks on journalists and secrecy obligations   —  I'm ambivalent about whether even to acknowledge this obviously disturbed, Cheneyite rant from Joe Klein.  On the one hand, I don't want to be dragged down into what is, for him, quite clearly a deeply emotional and personal matter … Read Full Story

Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street's ownership of government White House officials yesterday released their personal financial disclosure forms, and included in the millions of dollars which top Obama economics adviser Larry Summers made from Wall Street in 2008 is this detail: Lawrence H. Summers, one of President Obama's top economic advisers, collected roughly $5.2 million in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw over the past year and was paid more than $2.7 million in speaking fees by several troubled Wall Street firms and other organizations. . . . Financial institutions including JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch ... Read Full Story

Glenn Greenwald / Salon : The scope — and dangers — of GE's control of NBC and MSNBC   —  (updated below - Update II)  —  I want to return to the subject of GE's silencing of Keith Olbermann both because there are new facts I've obtained that shed light on what happened here and because this is one of the most blatant examples yet … Read Full Story