The co-founder of The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald, has been criminally charged in Brazil and accused of being part of a “criminal organization,” The New York Times reported Tuesday, for his outlet’s role in publishing the private discussions of members of a Brazilian anti-corruption task force.
Last summer, The Intercept, which has an office in Brazil, obtained and reported on the internal communications of the task force, called “Operation Car Wash.” The articles, which showed wrongdoing from current Justice Minister Sergio Moro, rocked the country.
The Intercept said the leaked documents came from an anonymous source.
In response, Moro said that The Intercept was “allied with criminal hackers,” the Columbia Journalism Review noted in August. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who’d attacked Greenwald in the past, mused in June that the journalist could “do time.”
In the criminal complaint reported by the Times, prosecutors alleged that Greenwald had a “clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime,” based on his communications with the hackers who allegedly provided the leaked material.
You pull enough tails and some animal is going to turn around and bite you.
No doubt Trump is involved in some stupid scheme with Bolsonaro.
As much as I dislike the prick, this isn’t OK. Lot’s of suppression going on in Brazil with the press these days and Bolsonaro has a problem with anyone that is openly gay. Maybe Greenwald can appeal to tRump to get him off the hook with Bolsonaro. I’m sure Glenn will be forever in his debt should he do so.
Oh, the irony.
We NeeD theSe laws on the BooKs to stop thE fake news reportiNg on the unsavory sTuFF trUmp does.