Glenn Greenwald is the now-legendary journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient who broke the Edward Snowden story, documented in the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, showing how the U.S. and British governments were spying on ordinary citizens. Glenn is also the co-founder of online media publication The Intercept and, in 2019, published leaked messages that broke a watershed corruption scandal in the Brazilian government, which implicated officials in the highest levels of office of serious wrongdoing. This publication made him and his family the target of a political prosecution and ongoing death threats. But how did he get here?

In this episode, Wayne Hsiung digs deep into Glenn's adolescent upbringing, unearthing his struggles as a gay kid in Florida, his rambunctious teenage years and failed run for political office, his double life as a corporate lawyer and radical gay rights activist, and his transition to exposing The Game-That-We-Call-The-Justice-System for what it is: a fraud.

“It’ll eat you up before you can start eating it up.”

“Courage means you do it despite that fear.”

Glenn's article on animal experimentation - Bred to Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation

Glenn's article on DxE - The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms

Jim Hubbard's documentary on ACT-UP - United in Anger

Chris Hayes' book - Twilight of the Elites

Music by Moby: Everything That Rises