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• • Jemima Kiss
  • theguardian.com, Friday 4 October 2013 12.51 BST
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12.51pm BST

'The journalist's job is to prevent people in power lying'

Glenn Greenwald on BBC Newsnight last night:

You just had people defending GCHQ on the grounds that this is only about terrorism and paedophiles. And yet much of the reporting we have done proves that is a lie.

We reported that GCHQ and NSA are spying on Petrobras the large Brazilian oil company that funds social programmes in Brazil - are there terrorists in Petrobras?

Or that they are spying on the org of American states when they are negotiating economic agreements - are there paedophiles at the OAS?

So I think that the job of journalists is to prevent people in power from lying to the people over whom they are ruling.

2.28pm BST

Edward Snowden 'should be put on hit list', joke US security chiefs

Everyone's having a blast at the 2013 Cybersecurity Summit. Former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden and Mike Rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee openly joked about putting Edward Snowden on a hitlist, as picked up by journalist Brendan Sasso.