This is a clear attack on the freedom of the press in Brazil and a massive injustice that must be condemned and immediately reversed by the relevant authorities. nytimes.com/2020/01/21/wor… #VazaJato
The claim by prosecutors is that one line of conversation in which Glenn allegedly says to the alleged hackers "we have already saved everything...I think there's no reason, no motive for you to save anything, understand?" is proof that he is a criminal collaborator. Wrong.
The Federal Police reviewed the same evidence — the same quote — & determined in their indictment in December that "it is not possible to identify moral or material participation by journalist @ggreenwald in the crimes investigated." metropoles.com/brasil/justica… 
Folhapress from Dec: "Glenn Greenwald, founder of Intercept, is not charged with any crime. The PF points out that the journalist, in more than one dialogue with the hackers, as sources, was cautious about not participating in the execution of the crime." gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/politica/notic…
Cognizant of this threat, Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes issued an injunction on any investigations into Glenn, saying a free press "cannot be vilified by investigative acts directed at the journalist in the regular exercise of his profession." politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-m…
More from Mendes ruling: "The constriction of individual freedoms of the journalist with the purpose of unveiling his source confidentiality, even when it occurs through institutionalized means of persecution, can come to constitute an unequivocal act of censorship."
Glenn has always categorically denied that he committed any crimes and made clear that he always acted a journalist in this case and I know that to be true. This is an attempt at political persecution by Brazilian government employees who view the free press as an enemy.
Note: This is the same federal prosecutor, Wellington Divino Marques de Oliveira, that attempted to charge the president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) for libeling Justice Min. Sergio Moro. That similarly spurious case was rejected by a judge. veja.abril.com.br/blog/radar/pro…
Law prof: "Journalists can advise their source on how to effectively preserve identity secrecy after publication. This includes eliminating records that link the source to the journalist."
"Journalists can also ensure chronological sequence of their relationship with the source is recorded, to prove that the hack was prior to the contact w the journalist. This protects the journalist...and does not criminally associate him with the hacker."
President of Brazil's lower chamber of Congress says, "The charges against journalist @ggreenwald are a threat to press freedom. Journalism is not a crime. Without free journalism there is no democracy."
@ggreenwald Legal expert: "I have read the complaint against @ggreenwald and I can say straight out: IT IS ABSURD.
Anyone who claims to be a democrat, whether left, center, whatever, has a civic duty to repudiate this act."
Anyone who claims to be a democrat, whether left, center, whatever, has a civic duty to repudiate this act."
@ggreenwald Gilmar Mendes, Supreme Court Minister who blocked investigations into Glenn, says today's Public Ministry accusation goes against his injunction. painel.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2020/01/21/par…
