Our statement at @FreedomofPress  on the false charges laid by Brazil's Bolsonaro regime against @ggreenwald  for reporting the biggest corruption story in years -- corruption in the Justice Ministry itself! These charges are unbelievable, unsupported, and indefensible.

"We're going to be rich."

@Viss  Agree. The biggest flaw in NYT's very, very good reporting on this is their seeming reluctance to reckon with the fact that the core problem is not if it is state or non-state actors compiling dystopian permanent records of entire populations, but that it is being done at all.

Whoever you are, whatever your values, recognize the historic importance of this: it is second time the US government's retaliation against *the same whistleblower* has been found equivalent to torture. Telling the truth has become the greatest of crimes.

“Nearly every other legal system in the world condemns coercive confinement, and long ago replaced secret grand juries with public hearings... even knowing I am very likely to stay in jail for an even longer time, I’m never backing down.”

"I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations that the NSA was spying on pretty much everyone was — how angry was his girlfriend?"

I suspect history will look back on the Suleimani assassination as the moment the US lost the long war in Iraq. The political consequences will cost the government far more presence in the region than any Iranian response.

Absolute red alert: This is unbelievably naked retaliation for revealing extreme corruption at the highest levels of #Bolsonaro 's administration, and an existential threat to investigative journalism in #Brazil .

I wrote an entire book on why I became a whistleblower.