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Greenwald, Poitras to return to U.S.

Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras will return to the United States on Friday for the Polk Award ceremony in New York, the Huffington Post's Michael Calderone reports.

Greenwald and Poitras are sharing the prestigious award with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and with The Washington Post's Barton Gellman for their reporting on the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The two have not been in the states since they broke the story of Snowden's leaks over the summer.

Greenwald told Calderone that part of what is motivating him to return is language from officials like Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that people like Greenwald are "accomplices" to Snowden, who is facing criminal charges for his leaks.

“It’s just the principle that I shouldn’t allow those tactics to stop me from returning to my own country," he said.

Greenwald said he has not been informed of any potential charges or that he's been named in any grand jury investigation tied to the NSA disclosures.

Read more from Calderone here.

Update 12:20 pm:

Greenwald will also be in Washington on May 14 to talk about his book "No Place to Hide" at the Sixth & I synagogue. (h/t Daniel Wein)

Update Friday, 12:50pm:

Greenwald, Poitras and Greenwald's partner David Miranda landed in New York and passed through customs without inicdent, ACLU's Christopher Soghoian posted on Twitter:

Note the ACLU lawyer (@PatrickCToomey) in the photo of Glenn and Laura arriving safely in NYC. pic.twitter.com/CDqSxdU4UM — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) April 11, 2014