WATCH: Glenn Greenwald Debates Former NSA Head over Surveillance

Journalist Glenn Greenwald debated former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden last night over government surveillance, Edward Snowden, and the role of journalists like Greenwald in reporting the information he leaked. The debate, hosted by Munk Debates, also featured Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

Hayden has previously been incredibly critical of not just Snowden, whose fans he mocked as “twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years,” but of Greenwald and other journalists reporting on NSA surveillance as well, scolding them previously for “garbled” coverage.

Dershowitz, meanwhile, has been incredibly critical of Greenwald in the past year, calling him a paranoid liar who hates America and is sympathetic to terrorists.

You can watch the full debate below:

[h/t Techdirt]
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