That debate all day and do nothing and then are overruled be the president. Or could i work to change the fundmental ideology of the country, and wont matter if i got a selected or ted cruz got elected or rand paul or mike pence or any of these folks if the American People dont begin to understand what america is all about. And we have lost that. We have lost that. We think july 4th is about barbecues. And more we think its about food stamp barbecues. We think that we the americans founding is about the idea that government is supposed to provide for me. We have all become infantallizees. Were all adolescents in our approach. Last night, slightly off topic. I was beginning to realize that since my baby was born, she is completely destride my emotional life because dry destroyed my emotional life. I was insensitive and callous and i was fund. Last night i was watching amc because im an old man, and theyre showing carousel. And about halfway through the movie and my wife needs to work and i turn off the tv and i watch the end of the carousel on youtube. And im sitting there crying like a baby, and id seen the musical. And now im sitting there crying. And my wife looked at me and said why are you crying . I said im watching the end of carousel. She said, what happens . Spoiler alert to hose who is in missed it in 1954. Hes given one chance to tell his wife and daughter he loves them to they can move on and the end of me musical is, believe i love you, and then walks off in dethough distance as they sing, youll never walk alone. So i tell my wife this and she starts crying. I say youre not even watching it. The opinions this. For those who are responsible, for those who care about children, have children, care about the future, recognize our own mortality, realize theirs something beyond ourself, this is not a identifying we can afford to lose. There is something beyond us. The left, theyre a bunch of adolescents. They dont care about the next generation, theyre willing to bank the next generation so they can have a good time right now. Theyre willing to rehavent the wealth, destroy the greatest civilization in the history of mankind. Specifically to sashate their own he donnistic needs. That what not were about. The daughter has taken the pizazz out of me but has also changed she has deep ended what believe, and for all of white house live it is a way of life, that way of life is under attack and the only way to destroy the folks who are attempting to attack thus is destroy them and deep key destroying them and theres no youtopia where they goo away. We cant afford to falter. I with do theyll win. But if we fight back strong and smart, and we recognize the situation we face, i do believe that with the grace of god we can win. Thank you so much. [applause] monday night on booktv, books resident frack and energy in america. And then at 8 30, a discussion about fracking from the Annapolis Book festival. At 9 15, decreeing degree suckerman in the fracturers skises the invention of fracking technology. At 11 eastern, russell gold describes how fracks has transformed energy and the world economy, in his book, the boom. Booktv in primetime every night this month on cspan 2. Joinist Glenn Greenwald broke the store of Edward Snowden. This is an hour 15 minutes. Good evening. Im Bradley Graham thinks coowner of moll ticks and prose, along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire p and p staff and all the staff here, id like to welcome you. We at p p are always tee lyinged to partner with six sixth and i and Company Sponsor talks in this truly marvelous building. Ester floor, the executive director or six i and her organization have done a terrific job establishing this place as a vibrant, culture center, now celebrating its 10th anniversary request were looking forward to continuing our Great Partnership with them. As the Book Store Owner im often asked by writers for advice on how to promote a book after its been published. I dont think ive ever suggested going out and winning a pulitzer prize, and making sure its awarded just a few weeks before the release of the book. But that is what Glenn Greenwood did. How is that working out for you, glen . Pretty well. Glen, of course, led the reporting team at the guardian, which along with the Washington Post just won the Public Service pulitzer for reporting on edwards snowdens nasa five. The committee commended glenn and his colleagues for sparking a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy. Glenn has been winning awards and recognition for just this sort of provocative coverage ever since he gave up practicing law nine years ago to write columns and books. He started his first blog in 2005 because, as he says in the introduction of his new book, he had become alarm bid the bush administrations post 9 11 theories of executive power. And wanted to make a broader impact than his career as a constitutional and civil rights lawyer had allowed. By 2007 he had become a contributing writer at salon, and in 2012 signed up with the guardian, having established himself as a dogged pursueunder of stories involving government overreach. It was glens aggressive coverage of such controversies as warrantless wire tapping by the nsa, that led snowden to seek him out and enlist him in the release of the classified files documenting the nsas vast Information Collection apparatus. Glenn tells the story in fascinating, revealing and. I passioned detail in his book, no place to ahead. A few months ago glen left the guardian to start an automobile publication, the intercept. Being backed he is far from finished with the snowden archives. He has been saying theres more to come, including even bigger revelations. As he told one interviewer, quote, i like to think of it as a fireworks show. You want to save your best for last. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming, Glenn Greenwald. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much for that extremely warm and generous welcome, and thank you so much for coming out tonight, and thank you to sixth and i and politics and prose for inviting me here. I witnessed when i was an adolescent a large number of my friends being bar mitzvahed and i never was, and i got to compensate for that tonight. So i have that surprise happenness about being here. Book tours, which im out in in the middle of, are singularry exhausting and also really exhilarating and the reason is because when you work on an issue or a story like ive been working on the nsa archive easers day for almost a year, yoke fuss on the documents in a very casebycase basis and dont have the opportunity to step back and think about some of the broader implications, and the more profound consequences of the work you have didnt doing, and writing a book, especially going around and talking about your book with people who have read and it been interested in your work for a long time and having that dialogue is a provoc staff provocative and interesting way to think about those issues. And i like events like this as opposed to what i normally do which is i sit in studios answering the same set of very predictable and vapid questions over and over by people who work as journalists, and i really look forward to the question and answer session, which i know will be great, as long as you dont ask me two questions, so, we understand that mr. Snowden arranged to be carrying a rubix crew, and then the National Security agency chief says you this will result in the death of innocent people. And it will be better than almost every Television Interview i do if theyre not asked. So, i want to begin by talking about what i did in the first part of the book, the first two chapters, which is tell the story of how i came to meet and then work with Edward Snowden, along with me longtime friend and journalistic collaborator in hong kong, and the reason that i really wanted to write a book and tell that story is because so much has been said about all of those events, and so much of what has been said has been wildly false. And one of the really interesting things is that if youre something that likes to bash the American Media and im definitely somebody who likes to do that its one of my most favorite pastimes, it doesnt really come as a surprise to learn that much of what the media turns out is misleading in all sorts of ways. But when youre actually at the center of a story like this, and youre reading in the newspaper claims about what it is that happened when you actually know the truth, because you are at those events and were part of them, your appreciation for their capacity to mislead expands wildly. It really is shocking to have seen some things that have been said, given my firsthand knowledge of how false they are. I remember in particular, in hong kong, when we revealed ward snowdens identity at his insistence on june 10th last year, from june 10th until june 23rd, the instant consensus of the american National Security elite here in washington and of large numbers of the American Media was that theres no question but that this is almost certainly a chinese espionage operation. That Edward Snowden is almost certainly a spy of the government in beijing. And then on june 24th, when he left hong kong and flew to moscow on his way to ecuador and got trapped in moscow by the u. S. Government who revoked his passport, the very same people accused him of being a chinese sky inlint tran formed their sneer campaign, obviously an agent of vladimir putin, and i knew tomorrow south korea, those same people would accuse if only being an agent of that government or wherever he would fly. This oped in the wall street journal last week saying we know for certain, either that this is this whole operation is either a chinese spy ring or a russian spy ring or a cyno Russian Joint operation, and then there was the issue of who Edward Snowden was. This actually stunned me. Was vaguely aware of this at the time but i was a little occupied back in june in hong kong and wasnt paying too much finings what attention to what people were saying but i went back to see how the media narrative formed in the wake of our disclosures and our unveiling of our source, and it is really remarkable. I mystified that almost over night, within 24 hours, all of these journalists who never heard of the name Edward Snowden before, had no idea who he was or what he did or what motivated him, were able, instantly to diagnosis him. Medically, psychologically, in a remark abe blue coordinated way. This consensus arose that he was a fameseeking narcissist, and literally within the 48 hours after he was unveiled, that phrase appeared in countless newspaper columns and all sorts of Television Programs and persists to this day. Even though at the very time that those people were smearing and demeaning and me massachusetts lining his character as a means of distracting attention from the revelations, he was telling me, and we were executing his plan, which was, im going to unveil myself one time and come forward and say a. The person who did this because i feel an obligation to stand up in public and complain why i did what i did. I dont want to hide. I dont want other people falsely accused. I want to take responsibility for what did bass im so convicted it was at the right thing to do. And every do that, im going to disappear. I am not going to do media interviews or let them personalize the issue the way they always like to dive whistleblowers, as a means of distracting attention, and literally every day for the next two or three months i had every major American Television permit, the actors who may the role of journalists on television, calling me and pleading with me to arrange for them to have the first Television Interview with Edward Snowden. Were willing to devote primetime to let him pontificate. He could have been the most famous person in the world and he rejected every single one of those offers because he knew that would result in allowing the focus to be on him permanently. Then theres the issue of the results and outcome of the disclosures. Almost instantly there was this script that was read from by the american political establishment which was that these disclosures are going to result in the deaths of innocent people and a compromising lot of american National Security. I think every single art in every of them with every media outlet outlet in the last year has put him as the man that i take it seriously and address it. What is most remarkable to me about it isnt that it is presented without any expectation of specificity or evidence to corroborate the accusation. I think none of us in this room are surprised after what the media did in the runup to the iraq war that they are perfectly willing to amplify mindless claims of the government without ever asking for any evidence whatsoever to corroborate it. That is not what really surprised me the most about. What surprised me the most about it was the eagerness to completely ignore the fact that in every single case, every single whistleblower of every single unauthorized disclosure which means that you are publishing information that the government wants to hide, the same accusations are made, the same kinds of fearmongering is called out over and over and over again going all the way back to the 1971 week of Daniel Ellsberg when he leaked the pentagon papers and informed the american citizenry that the government was systematically lying about the vietnam war. Jamie ellsberg was mike childhood hero and i had the honor of becoming friends with him in college and i served on the board with him. Ive had the opportunity to talk to him because hes become the leading most vocal defender not just of but Chelsea Manning and the reason hes so devoting to do it even though hes now 83 is because he said that every single thing that they say about Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, every single thing was said about me. Nixon officials going to the congress and telling the American People through their elected representatives that Daniel Ellsberg was almost certainly a russian spy. The accusation was continuously made included by the nixon officials before the Supreme Court that these disclosures would severely damage american National Security and risk the lives of men and women in uniform and in general undermine security of United States. Its now essentially a consensus that all of that was fictitious. Disclosures he made were both noble and heroic and certainly in the Public Interest and yet theres no conception at all when these accusations are made that the fact that they have been made over and over again and disproven over and over and over again might mean that we have to have at least as a journalist and i are both skepticism and those claims are made in the latest instance. The reality is the disclosures that we have made have been quite damaging to their reputations and the credibility of american officials who had been lying to the public in building this massive Surveillance System in secret for all of these years. It hasnt in any way harmed any legitimate interest of us as american citizens. Its only strengthen the system of which we are all a part because that requires us knowing rather than inferring about the most consequential acts that our government is doing in the dark. The last point i want to make about why wanted to tell the story and the misperceptions that have persisted is about what Edward Snowden hopes to achieve, what is sexual desire and outcome was. There is this very pervasive criticism that i would call as being from the right which i mean from democrats although you do hear it from republicans as well occasionally but not nearly with the frequency. These disclosures have been incredibly and have been disclosed without regard to american interests and with the intention to harm american interests that this was somehow treasonous. I was on cspan this morning and every time the host said that now we go to the democratic line i knew i was about to be called the traitor and let reliably thats what happened. Theres this idea that theres this recklessness taking place and Edward Snowden wants to harm the systems and so do we. And then theres a much less wellknown strain of criticism that it comes from the left. Its actually much more serious criticism of the journalism that we have done in the way these disclosures are carried out. Even though its much more serious its gotten much less attention. That criticism is why are we holding on to so many doctrines and why do we just publish huge numbers of documents rather than the careful management process that we use. The answer to the both of those questions lies in the truth about what actually happened when Edward Snowden came forward in what his objectives were. Like most sources to come to journals with information he had clear ideas about certain types of information that he believed he needed to get out and then there was other information he had that he was insistent not be published which is common for sources to come and say you can publish this but not this. Then there was this vast gray area of information we believe is a close call and he didnt trust his own judgment unilaterally to make those choices. What he said was im giving you, meaning me, these materials and i want you to make a judgment about which of these documents should be published. Many of the documents i d