The American journalist Glenn Greenwald and the documentary Oscar winner for Inside Job Charles Ferguson confessed that they wondered why they were together this Saturday (2) Flip the table in Paraty. The first revealed the spy cases of the American government, including about Brazil, and the latter told the financial practices of large institutions that led to the global economic crisis of 2008 They concluded that there is a null response in common, a lack of punishment to those responsible for actions - illegal or immoral - that the two exposed in their work.


Greenwald, Pulitzer winner, top award for journalism from the USA, the report showed that the activities of the NSA and surveillance of millions of people, first commented on the admission of Barack Obama on Friday that members of the CIA, the intelligence agency American, practiced torture in recent years.

The journalist, who lives in Brazil ten years ago, used a phrase from the American president to illustrate that, according to Greenwald, is a certain disdain for changes in illegal practices.

"Obama yesterday used the term 'The CIA tortured a personal [tortured some folks]." That caught my attention about their stance, "he reflects around the relaxed choice of words in a demeaning context for Washington.

"The policies adopted by Obama emphasize the imperialist practices of the United States," says Greenwald.

Ferguson made a comment on the same line about the American president, elected under great expectation in the world that some practices of state would be altered. The filmmaker showed the documentary "Inside Job" narrated by Ben Affleck, that people directly responsible for the 2008 crisis and even profited from it gained positions in the Obama administration. He says no one was judicially condemned the practices that devastated the finances of millions.

According to him, on some occasions when the president talks about the 2008 crisis, "he knows he's lying. He studied law at Harvard [the most prestigious American university]," quips.

Greenwald said the lack of punishment in court two cases investigated by him and Ferguson demonstrates a contradiction. "And while the United States has the largest prison population in the world, even bigger than China and India. Ie, another part of the population, yes, is the object of punishment in court."

Ferguson also spoke of problems with another prominent name of the American Democratic Party. He was hired by CNN to make a movie about Hillary Clinton, a potential candidate for president in 2016 sought a hundred people. Six agreed to speak, but without revealing the name. Only two appear. "All I found was a wall of silence. Had to give up. Would not be a movie I would priding myself from him."

Edward Snowden

The American journalist said he visited Russia six weeks Edward Snowden, the FBI employee who leaked documents exposed the surveillance of American citizens on government and foreign governments there. "It is well, it is sometimes recognized in the street, but not always, and continues to participate in this debate [on surveillance]."

And charged the governments that have benefited from Snowden revelations, including the Brazilian, give shelter to him. "Whether Germany or Brazil, there is a legal, moral, helping Snowden. But they are more afraid of politically alienate the USA to help those who sacrificed for them."

Journalism x activism

Greenwald was asked again about "fairness" in work. He is accused of being more an activist than a journalist. "I despise the kind of journalism that simply takes both sides and says 'oh I can not decide anything about it' and does not provide any service. Believe in something I can only try to reduce the injustices," he said.