Lead Reporter On The NSA Intelligence Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come

Greenwald in Rio de Janeiro in July. Sergio Moraes / Reuters

Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come -- Time

Although four months have passed since Edward Snowden’s explosive NSA surveillance leaks, the most revealing details have not yet been published, and could be rolled out in the international media over the coming weeks and months, beginning with U.S. spying activities involving Spain and France. That’s according to Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the Snowden story last June, and whose life has been drastically upturned since. “There are a lot more stories,” he said on Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. “The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish.”

Greenwald was speaking in a packed university gymnasium to hundreds of journalists, who are gathered here this week for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, a two-yearly event that rotates around the world, bringing together writers, television producers and editors to share information and collaborate on work. Here, Greenwald was something of a hero — the entire thrust of the conference centers on ferreting out secrets and wrongdoing—and the journalist received a rock-star welcome. And while Rio was chosen as the location for the conference years ago, it proved a fortuitous spot. Greenwald recently revealed on Brazil´s hugely popular Globo TV that the NSA had spied on President Dilma Rousseff, as well as the government oil company Petrobras. The news caused a furor in Brazil, not least from Rousseff herself, and she canceled a White House visit, originally scheduled for next week.

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My Comment: Glenn Greenwald has been consistent in posting an incredible collection of stories and secrets for the past four months .... and he has not disappointed me yet. On a side note .... Glenn Greenwald will be leaving the Guardian to start up his own news organization.

Update: Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture -- Reuters