The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald paid a visit to “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning for an interview with conservative commentator Eric Bolling.
Bolling asked Greenwald if he cared to use the morning program as a venue to break another scoop on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.
“Unfortunately, Eric, you’re gonna have to wait along with everybody else until our stories are published,” Greenwald said. “But I will say that there are vast programs of both domestic and international spying that the world will be shocked to learn about that the NSA has engaged in without any democratic accountability and that’s what’s driving our reporting.”
When the topic turned to NBC’s David Gregory — who aggressively asked The Guardian writer if he should be charged for reporting on the top secret programs — Greenwald said he hasn’t received an apology from the “Meet The Press” host but he’s hardly been discouraged.
“This is what journalism is about — shining a light on what the most powerful people in the country are doing to them in the dark — so we’re going to continue to do that no matter what David Gregory and his friends say,” Greenwald said.
Greenwald took to Twitter on Tuesday to respond to criticism he evidently received for appearing on Fox, linking to a pair of interviews President Barack Obama granted to the conservative cable news network:
For all the Obama loyalists saying today how outrageous it is to speak to Fox News viewers: http://t.co/PdK44BoE06 – http://t.co/xKmKdFvb3B
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2013
