Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, the definitive narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern surveillance state. When Edward Snowden gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified NSA files, he, and they, touched off an ongoing global controversy. But for Gellman, the initial scoop was only the beginning of a deep investigation of the reach and methodology of the U.S. surveillance state. Dark Mirror is both a revelatory, clarifying portrait of shadowy governmental power and a gripping behind-the-scenes narrative of high-stakes investigative reporting as it happens. Vivid and insightful, Dark Mirror is a true-life spy tale about the surveillance-industrial revolution and its discontents. Along the way, it tells the full story of a government leak unrivaled in drama since All the President's Men. --,Provided by publisher.