Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is a blogger for the website Salon.com and a well-known critic of the Washington, D.C. Beltway establishment on both the liberal and conservative side. Prior to becoming a blogger for Salon, Greenwald was a constitutional law and civil rights attorney in New York. Greenwald is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers: How Would a Patriot Act? (May, 2006), A Tragic Legacy (June, 2007), as well as the book "Great American Hypocrites." Greenwald is famous for his lengthy polemical blog entries, as well as his scathing critiques of the mainstream media, United States foreign policy, legal and constitutional law issues, as well as government-sponsored manipulative propaganda and public relations efforts.

In July 2012 it was reported that he would join the Guardian along with "other American-based columnists — including Michael Wolff, Ana Marie Cox and Naomi Wolf — as part of its effort to create a larger presence in the United States."

June, 2013, Reporting Based on Edward Snowden's Whistleblowing Revelations of NSA Spying
Greenwald and his reporting dominated the news in the first weeks of 2013 when he reported in the Guardian information provided to him by Edward Snowden exposing massive, secret, global spying via NSA acquisition of online data on hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Ideology
In his own words, when asked about his ideology in an interview conducted by a reporter for The Atlantic, Greenwald stated,

I actually don't self-identify as a progressive or as any other political label, for exact