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Greenwald is a courageous journalist and much of this book reads like a spy thriller about his reporting on judicial and political corruption in Brazil. Worth a read.
Outstanding read. Reads like a political thriller.
This is an exciting account of Greenwald’s process of receiving and reporting on the leaked communications which proved that Brazil’s Operation Car Wash, far from being an impartial legal takedown of corruption, was in fact a political scam targeting the Workers Party that paved the way for the current catastrophe of the Bolsonaro government. It’s a shame that Greenwald spends so much time and energy getting into stupid fights online, because it distracts from his genuine heroism and this story
Few journalists experience the stroke of fortune of having a scoop as explosive and important as the Snowden leaks dropped into their laps once in a lifetime - Glenn Greenwald has had it twice. Contacted in 2019 by an anonymous source promising an archive of hacked documents and audio files proving massive corruption and assorted illegal activities by the highest echelons of the Bolsonaro government, he began releasing a series of explosive reports through The Intercept Brazil and other media ou...
Not the greatest writing in a literary sense, but a very important and compelling topic, press freedom in the world’s largest democracy.
Greenwald is definitely in contention for “most interesting man in the world”. The true epitome of investigative journalist unfettered by a corporate pressure. After assisting Edward Snowden in revealing the wide abuses by the NSA, Greenwald ends up in Brazil where he uncovered the abuses in Operation Car Wash and President Bolsonaro. This book details that story. Greenwald seems to be motivated to expose the abuses of power and admirably has not spared anyone nor seems beholden to a political i...
An absolute page turner. I couldn’t put it down. I follow Glenn on twitter and when someone is as hated as he is, and by people from all political backgrounds and ideologies, it makes me want to listen to what he has to say. I get that sometimes he comes off rude or even dare I say …. a bit of a bully? But his contributions to the press, its freedom, and his involvement with the Snowden reporting and Vaza Jato give him a pass on his sometimes harsh rhetoric. This book however is in plain languag...
The reporting in this book is superb. However, the book also has many flaws. I'm writing this review during the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Because of that world-changing event, this book did not age well.Throughout this book (and especially at the beginning), the author is extremely critical of the United States' foreign and internal policies. It is now clear that it's much better to have the US as a super-power and not Russia or China. Moreover, Greenwald at one point justifies Brazil's decis...
I snagged this one on Audible, mainly because I was vaguely aware of a lot of the events described inthis book and wanted to be more informed about just what all had gone down in Brazil over the course of the past few years and Greenwald- love him or hate him- was at the center of the journalistic firestorm around a lot of it.The structure of the book is well laid out-- before you dig into the reporting and the controversy Greenwald found himself in, he 'sets the scene' in a structured and infor...
Greenwald is very effective again telling the story of how he received a treasure trove of emails, videos, and audioclips of the inner workings of a probe into political corruption from an unnamed source. What was revealed in this material was collusion and an attempt to frame the politicians caught up in the probe all of whom were from left-wing parties. Greenwald carefully parses Brazilian political history going back decades which is necessary to put the whole business in context. Then he det...
Mwaka 2014, wakati Edward Snowden anapuliza kipyenga na kuibua jinsi gani vyombo vya usalama vya Marekani (National Security Agency) na Uingereza Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) vinavyotumika, kinyume na sheria, kuwapeleleza raia wake, raia na viongozi wa nchi mbalimbali duniani, kama Brazil. Snowden, alipotaka kutoa habari hizi, alimtafuta Glenn Greenwald, aliyekuwa ni correspondent wa gazeti la the Guardian la Uingereza, mwaka 2013. Pengine swali, kwanini Greenwald? Greenwald, ni...
