By Art Marroquin, Orange County Register ||
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first reported on many of the data-collecting tactics by the National Security Agency, is scheduled to appear and speak Saturday to a Muslim civil liberties group at the Anaheim Convention Center.
While it’s unclear whether he will actually visit Orange County, the event’s organizers are making contingency plans to have Greenwald appear via live-stream video during the annual banquet held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Attorney General Eric Holder has not said whether Greenwald would be arrested and prosecuted for reporting the NSA’s public-surveillance program through interviews and documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, according to a report this week by U.S. News and World Report.
A woman who answered the phone with the U.S. Justice Department’s public affairs office in Washington, D.C. said she was not familiar with Greenwald and asked a reporter to send an email with questions. The Justice Department did not respond to questions concerning whether Greenwald would be arrested if he returns to the United States, nor if federal authorities will monitor CAIR’s banquet in Anaheim.