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The Intercept this week released a new investigative report on New Zealand and its own mass surveillance program which the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) routinely shared data with. The report, based on documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden, contradicts assurances made by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key that the country has no mass spying program. The report, authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is also the founding editor of the Intercept, is just the latest in a series of revelations made possible by Snowden’s leak.

The story of how Snowden helped foster an incredible public dialogue about government surveillance is told in a book released earlier this summer by Greenwald. In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald went to Hong Kong along with his friend and colleague Laura Poitras, to meet Snowden, a man who claimed to have extensive evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels.

Because of his reporting work over this past year, Greenwald is a household name today. He tells the story of Snowden in a new book called No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State. Greenwald is also the author of How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. He is a former constitutional law and civil rights litigator. He recently won the 2013 Polk Award for national security reporting. And in April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Greenwald spoke in Los Angeles on June 19, 2014. Special thanks to Haymarket Books for organizing the event, and to Zuberi Fields of KPFK for recording this event.