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DonViejo

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Wed Oct 16, 2013, 07:15 PM Oct 2013

Slatest PM: Greenwald Joins Forces With Ebay Founder

Greenwald's New Home: Washington Post: "Glenn Greenwald, the blogger and journalist who has revealed key details about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, is leaving Britain’s Guardian newspaper to join a new news venture backed by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar. The new, as-yet-unnamed news site has also sought to hire Laura Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who was instrumental in linking former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to Greenwald and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post. Another potential hire is Jeremy Scahill, national security reporter of the Nation magazine, said a person familiar with the venture.

Read it at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/blogger-journalist-glenn-greenwald-to-leave-britains-guardian-newspaper/2013/10/15/a0cf9a4c-35e8-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html
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