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In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
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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...
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"IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders...