Glenn Greenwald: government surveillance one year after the Snowden files

It's been one year since the scope and ambition of the National Security Agency were first exposed to the world through documents obtained by Edward Snowden and published in the Guardian newspaper.

It's been one year since the scope and ambition of the National Security Agency were first exposed to the world through documents obtained by Edward Snowden and published in the Guardian newspaper. In the new book, "No Place to Hide," Glenn Greenwald, award-winning journalist and one of the principals in this ongoing saga, recounts from the moment in May 2013 when he set out for Hong Kong to meet Snowden to the impact the leaked files have had on public discourse on privacy and government surveillance since their release.

Going beyond the NSA, Greenwald also takes on the mainstream media for its risk aversion and for not fulfilling its duty to serve the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation's political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens.

Guest:

Glenn Greenwald, author of “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State (Metropolitan Books, 2014). He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series of stories published in the Guardian on the NSA