Amy Goodman
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"Right Out of a Spy Movie": Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden
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5:23Now PlayingIn part two of our extended interview, journalist Glenn Greenwald tells the inside story of meeting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras were the journalists who first met Snowden in Hong Kong last June, going on to publish a series of disclosures that exposed massive NSA surveillance to the world. Greenwald has just come out with a new book on the Snowden leaks and their fallout, "No Place to HideEdward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State." Recalling his first encounter with Snowden, Greenwald says"The big question wasHow are we going to know that it's you? We know nothing about you. We don't know how old you are, what you look like or what your race is or even your gender. And he said, 'You'll know me because I'll be holding in my left hand a Rubik's cube.' And so, he walked in, was holding a Rubik's cube, came over to us, introduced himself, and that was how we met him."
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