Thread by @schmittpaula

Speaking of Epstein and kompromat, Glenn Greenwald held 7 terabytes of private convos of the highest authorities in Brazil, and released what he wanted. I believe those files were used for blackmailing.

Glenn authorised specific journalists to visit the room and see the conversations, but forbade them the use of any recording material except a pen and paper. I asked to be allowed in the room like the other journalists and look at the material, but my request was refused.

My request was refused because I had nothing to hide. Unlike most journos who were allowed in, there wasn'ta single message in that trove that could cast a stain on my reputation and work. That means I was not welcome -- unlike journalists who could be blackmailed into silence

There is absolutely no other reason why I was not allowed inside. I am the only journalist in the world to have interviewed both Hassan Nasrallah as well as a former Mossad chief (Shabtai Shavit). I also interview Leila Khaled, the Palestinian who hijacked a civilian plane

I wrote an article about Palestinian refugees that was responsible for raising the largest amount of donation till then to the readers-sponsored 972mag in Israel. I also covered the "counter" terrorism conference in Herzliya for this magazine.

I covered 2 wars, and wrote for Rolling Stone magazine, corresponded for Radio France Internationale in Lebanon and Italy, and was the foreign correspondent for the then second largest Brazilian TV in the Middle East. I was awarded the Bandeirantes National Radiojournalism award

I was the first Latin American journalist to interview Salman Rushdie (while he was still under a fatwa and I was still a student). I am good at what I do. But there was something else that may have prevented Glenn Greenwald from allowing me inside the vault to see the terabytes

I worked for Ruptly, a Russian news production outlet that belongs to RT (this is me in Spain, reporting for RT, formerly Russia Today). The problem is that I wrote about my experience at that outlet -- which I couldn't endure for more than 3 months

I was invited to work for RT at the highest journalistic position in the newsroom (which I declined, as I wanted to be a reporter, not a manager). They flew me from New York, and even used me to teach younger journos at the training phase.

RT thought that the fact that I had managed an exclusive interview with Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, meant I shared their ideology and would be a loyal repeater of whatever they told me to say.

Russia didn't know, but Nasrallah accepted my request for an interview because Hezbollah checked my background, investigated me for over 2 months, and finally concluded that I was serious, honest and incorruptible -- even while disagreeing with much of their tenets.

But when I was in Berlin working for Russia Today (Ruptly), my bosses realised I was no partisan -- I was a journalist. Here is the article where I tell my experience while breaking my NDA. @972mag was the only outlet w/the cojones to publish it
972mag.com/why-i-quit-rus…

@972mag And here is one of several articles I wrote on how I believe Glenn Greenwald was involved in a kompromat operation that kept Brazilian journalists hostage, turning analysts that were openly anti-Lula into lackeys of the former "union leader"
poder360.com.br/opiniao/a-vaza…

@972mag Few people outside Brazil know, but Lula is the president who overruled a law that prevented Monsanto from fucking with our natural food; who created the largest beef monopoly in the world; who gave public money to help create the largest liquor monopoly in the world (AMBEV) and

@972mag and allowed AMBEV to then call "beer" a piss-like drink made with genetically modified corn. Yes, we in Brazil have our own Victory Gin. Lula was the "union leader" chosen by the car factory owners. He came from Johns Hopkins blessings.

@972mag Lula and its party, PT, are involved in the largest robbery of poor people in the history of Brazil (around 6 billion stolen from the elderly). This all started when Lula allowed private banks to hold the money from the pension -- till then, only distributed by public banks

@972mag Lula is also the president who "ended" our debt to IMF but transferred that debt to the mega banks (banks in Brasil are a quasi-monopoly). With this apparently "sovereignty inspired" movement, our debt increased 4-fold, and Brazilians became poorer.

@972mag Ask any decent journalist in Brazil and they will tell you that they cannot explain how so many people -- politicians, artists, judges and journalists -- changed opinions and position so radically and so quickly. Only kompromat explains that.

@972mag 5 y ago, in a televised speech, Greenwald made a threat: he said he had tons of private messages from journalists, a trove larger than what NSA collected on UK. He promised to divulge the material. But he never did. Why? Bcoz blackmail only works when the kompromat isn't released

@972mag P.S. Years after my interview with Hassan Nasrallah, I was detained by Hezbollah in an numbered interrogation room. They again verified I was no spy, and let me out with offers of coffee and biscuits. I told this story in Rolling Stone, when it was decent