Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald born March 6 1967 is an American journalist author and lawyer In 2014 he cofounded The Intercept of which he was an editor until he resigned in October 2020 Greenwald subsequently started selfpublishing on Substack In 1996 Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on First Amendment litigation He began blogging on national security issues in October 2005 when he was becoming increasingly concerned with what he viewed as attacks on civil liberties by the George W Bush Administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks He became a vocal critic of the Iraq War and has maintained a critical position of American foreign policy