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Greenwald & Scahill Team Up to Reveal NSA’s Role in U.S. Assassination Program

In Archive, NSA, NSA Files on September 29, 2013 at 7:56 AM

Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald

09/28/2013

AP:

Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States’ government said Saturday they’ve teamed up to report on the National Security Agency’s role in what one called a “U.S. assassination program.”

The journalists provided no evidence of the purported U.S. program at the news conference, nor details of who it targeted.

Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of “Dirty Wars,” said he will be working with Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

“The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don’t want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program,” said Scahill, speaking to moviegoers in Rio de Janeiro, where the documentary based on his book made its Latin American debut at the Rio Film Festival.

“There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce ‘actionable intelligence,’ or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power,” said Scahill.

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Assange, Greenwald, Coombs, O’Brien, Manne and Keane on mass surveillance

Last night at the Syd­ney Opera House I wit­nessed a truly unique event. 1.5 hour dis­cus­sion with Wik­ileaks’ Ju­lian As­sange, The Guardian’s Glenn Green­wald, indy re­porter and key doc­u­menter of the Chelsea Man­ning trial Alexa O’Brien (with whom I did an event tonight on Man­ning and dis­sent), Man­ning lawyer David Coombs, aca­d­e­mic Robert Manne and mod­er­a­tor Crikey’s Bernard Keane.

They dis­cussed mass sur­veil­lance, Ed­ward Snow­den and why dis­sent is so vital in an age of ever-grow­ing gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate in­tru­sion:

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