Glenn Greenwald Takes Apart David Gregory for Trying to Criminalize Journalism

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5. David Gregory To Glenn Greenwald: 'Why Shouldn't You Be Charged With A Crime?'

David Gregory To Glenn Greenwald: 'Why Shouldn't You Be Charged With A Crime?'


Meet the Press" host David Gregory asked columnist Glenn Greenwald why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for working with NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Greenwald, who was on to discuss Snowden's Sunday morning flight from Hong Kong to Moscow. (It is unclear where Snowden will ultimately land, though reports have suggested he is headed to Venezuela.) At the tail end of the conversation, Gregory suddenly asked Greenwald why the government shouldn't be going after him.

"To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?" he asked.

Greenwald replied that it was "pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse" about such a thing, and that there was no evidence to back up Gregory's claim that he had "aided" Snowden.

Gregory replied that "the question of who's a journalist may be up to debate with regards to what you're doing," but added that he was merely posing a question others have asked, and not taking sides.

Greenwald tweeted about the exchange soon after:

Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?
-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 23, 2013

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