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Glenn Greenwald refuses to hand over documents on espionage to Investigation Committee
Criado em 10/10/13 10h46
e atualizado em 11/10/13 11h52
Por Mariana Jungmann
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Fonte:Agência Brasil
Brasília – American journalist Glenn Greenwald gave another testimony on Wednesday (October 9) to the Congressional Committee of Investigation (“CPI”) on Espionage, at the Brazilian Senate. He declared that he has published everything he knows about the documents on the monitoring campaign carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept Brazilian communications.
Senator Pedro Taques asked the journalist to hand over to the CPI the documents on Brazil in his possession so that they could be investigated by the committee. Taques explained: “We can’t be bound by TV programs,” and insisted: “These are documents in which at least crime evidence can be found. And documents [with this content] can be the object of search and seizure. So I suggest he leaves these documents under the care of the Senate, [i.e.,] of this committee, and he can refer to them whenever he needs it in the course of his work.”
The journalist refused to comply: “I’m publishing all this information at a lot of risk. I’m not holding back relevant documents; I’m not holding back important information. I’ve been publishing, not holding back, all the information I have regarding espionage on Brazil. Government and journalism are separate and should remain separate.”
He reiterated that the NSA spying scheme does not aim at fighting terrorism or child abuse; rather, it hides commercial and geopolitical interests: “There are no pedophiles at Petrobras, nor are there any at the president Dilma [Rousseff]’s cabinet. So fighting pedophilia isn’t the reason why NSA’s been doing this.”
The committee also heard David Miranda, Greenwald’s partner, who was detained for over nine hours at the Heathrow Airport, in London, in July. Miranda reported being told he could be arrested if he did not give all the information requested, and considered himself a victim of prejudice for being Brazilian: “I was arrested because I’m Brazilian. In these countries, like England and the United States, they still see Brazil and other South American countries as colonies.”
Miranda demanded more rigorous measures from Brazil’s Foreign Relations Ministry regarding the incident and also other Brazilians arrested arbitrarily in England under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Editors: Aécio Amado / Lícia Marques
Translators: Fabrício Ferreira
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