Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and journalist who broke the NSA revelations in The Guardian, announced that he would to found his own news outlet, BuzzFeed first reported. Reuters later said that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar .
Why is this important? Mr. Greenwald billed the new venture as explicitly for the purposes of publishing the rest of the NSA documents, which he had not passed in full to The Guardian. Greenwald鈥檚 announcement was an assurance that the NSA leaks are far from over and was the latest threat to the US government鈥檚 effort to quell burgeoning worldwide outrage over its agency's activities.
