{"id":1927165,"date":"2023-05-09T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-greenwald-talks-edward-snowden-institutions-targeting-trump-and-more-in-latest-ben-shapiro-sunday-special\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T06:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:28:54","slug":"glenn-greenwald-talks-edward-snowden-institutions-targeting-trump-and-more-in-latest-ben-shapiro-sunday-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-greenwald-talks-edward-snowden-institutions-targeting-trump-and-more-in-latest-ben-shapiro-sunday-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwald discusses Snowden, Trump targeting, and more in Shapiro&#8217;s &#8216;Sunday Special&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglenn-greenwald-talks-edward-snowden-institutions-targeting-trump-and-more-in-latest-ben-shapiro-sunday-special%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Glenn Greenwald Reveals Details About Edward Snowden and American Institutions<\/h2>\n<h3>Patriotism and Whistleblowing<\/h3>\n<p>In a recent &#8220;Sunday Special&#8221; with Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-invaders-will-soon-be-in-your-corner-of-red-america-if-they-havent-colonized-it-already\/\" title=\"Leftist Invaders Will Soon Be In Your Corner Of Red America \u2014 If They Haven\u2019t Colonized It Already\">fascinating insights<\/a> into his 2013 reporting on the NSA and former NSA sub-contractor Edward Snowden. Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer and bestselling author, firmly believes that Snowden acted as a patriot and was not working with an adversarial government like Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald explained that Snowden was a true believer in the security state&#8217;s mission to protect the United States and wanted to be a part of it. However, after seeing the NSA &#8220;turning its powers inward on the American people,&#8221; Snowden knew he had to &#8220;blow the whistle.&#8221; Greenwald emphasized that Snowden did not want to harm the United States or sell information to foreign powers. Instead, he came to journalists and instructed them to release only the information that the public needed to know to understand the issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Trapped in Russia<\/h3>\n<p>Greenwald also revealed that Snowden is now in Russia because the Obama administration stopped his attempted route to Latin America, where he was going to get asylum. Greenwald explained that the Obama administration called the Cubans and told them not to let Snowden pass safely through Havana. The Cubans withdrew their offer of safe passage, and Snowden was trapped in Russia.<\/p>\n<h3>Threats to the Status Quo<\/h3>\n<p>Greenwald also discussed how the political establishment and U.S. institutions, such as the FBI and CIA, are uniquely threatened by Trump due to the former president&#8217;s challenges to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-holder-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-says-federal-courts-are-stacked-with-ideologues-who-reach-rulings-based-on-stunted-mindsets\/\" title=\"Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with Ideologues \u201cWho Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets\u201d\">status quo<\/a> in Washington. Greenwald argued that Trump became a real threat to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glenn-greenwald-talks-edward-snowden-institutions-targeting-trump-and-more-in-latest-ben-shapiro-sunday-special\/\" title=\"Greenwald discusses Snowden, Trump targeting, and more in Shapiro's 'Sunday Special'.\">permanent power centers<\/a> in Washington when he started questioning things that no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-were-jokes-russia-celebrates-friendly-biden-call-with-putin\/\" title=\"'There Were Jokes': Russia Celebrates Friendly Biden Call with Putin\">viable presidential candidate<\/a> would ever have questioned previously.<\/p>\n<h3>The Greatest Threat to Our Democracy<\/h3>\n<p>Greenwald warned that the greatest threat to our democracy is not any particular politician like Donald Trump, but the fact that institutions are now very willing to interfere in our domestic politics way beyond what they were ever supposed to do. He regards this as a greater danger than any particular politician.<\/p>\n<h3>State of Journalism and Social Media Censorship<\/h3>\n<p>Greenwald and Shapiro also talked about the state of journalism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexico-president-condemns-censorship-of-president-trump\/\" title=\"Mexico President condemns censorship of President Trump\">social media censorship<\/a>, and debated, from opposing viewpoints, U.S. foreign policy and American interventionism.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about Greenwald&#8217;s fascinating insights, check out The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special featuring Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest \u201cSunday Special\u201d with Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald reveals details about his bombshell 2013 reporting on the NSA and\u00a0former NSA sub-contractor Edward Snowden, and explains\u00a0why American institutions have targeted and continue to target former President Donald Trump. Greenwald, a\u00a0constitutional lawyer and bestselling author, told Shapiro during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1927166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10659,19144,20952,16426,7262,11439,6896,3634],"class_list":["post-1927165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-discusses","tag-greenwald","tag-shapiros","tag-snowden","tag-special","tag-sunday","tag-targeting","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}