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Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras return to US, blame government for climate of fear

12
Apr
2014

At the presentation ceremony for the prestigious George Polk Awards in journalism, reporters were recognized for some of the biggest stories of the past year: the NFL’s indifference to concussions, the deliberate attempts by New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s office to create traffic jams, former Virginia governor Robert McConnell’s acceptance of illegal gifts. But one of the most dramatic moments was a series of text messages signaling the arrival of two journalists who helped reveal the large and hidden web of NSA surveillance: documentarian Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald. The presentation of the Polk Award for national security reporting, which Poitras and Greenwald accepted alongside The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and The Washington Post’s Barton Gellman, marked the pair’s first visit to the United States since the initial leaks from Edward Snowden were published nearly a year ago.

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