Gaza whistleblower defamed online after exposing atrocities

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews Previously Prohibited podcast co-host Melissa Witte about her independent investigation into a smear campaign targeting former U.S. Green Beret Tony Aguilar. Aguilar, who had worked as a contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), publicly denounced the organization’s aid distribution practices in Gaza, describing them as unethical and constituting war crimes. His whistleblowing prompted a smear campaign against him, accusing him falsely of domestic violence charges. Witte debunked the claims through public records research, concluding the circulated arrest document was fabricated.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 5th of August, 2025.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.