Glenn Greenwald on the Verizon Call Records Report
Glenn Greenwald, columnist and blogger for The Guardian, former constitutional law and civil rights litigator, and author of With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, discusses his reporting on the National Security Agency collecting Verizon phone records.
"The important thing to realize here is that this 1 order is not the extent of the program" - @ggreenwald on @WNYC now on NSA Verizon story.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 6, 2013
.@ggreenwald on @WNYC: The court order covers Verizon BUSINESS and subsidiary MCI
— Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) June 6, 2013
"It's unclear exactly why the #NSA wants this" says @ggreenwald. Gathering up so much call data "allows them to be extremely invasive."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 6, 2013
On his source: "they want to educate their fellow citizens about things the gov't is doing in secret that should be known" -@ggreenwald
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 6, 2013
