The Snowden Files |
Subtitle:
The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
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Book Category:
Political Science > General
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Author:
HARDING, LUKE
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Editor::
LuAnn Walther
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0804173524
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ISBN 13:
9780804173520
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Price:
USD 14.95
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Publication Year:
2014
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Publisher Info
Cristi Navarro,
Penguin Random House,375 Hudson Street,
New York ,
New York - 10014,USA
Web: www.penguinrandomhouse.com Inquiry
Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old NSA contractor living in a bungalow with his girlfriend outside Honolulu, working by day in an underground spy bunker know as 'the tunnel,' when he resolved to expose the near-universal electronic mass surveillance programs of the United States government. Snowden was shocked to find that even citizens not expected of wrong-doing were being targeted; that data was being shared by Silicon Valley and major telecoms; that the American public was being deliberately mislead as to the egregious and secret collection of data on hundreds of millions of citizens. In a tour-de-force of investigative journalism, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding describes Snowden's whistleblower journey along with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, and the unprecedented international uproar their collaboration provoked. Harding clarifies in clear and shocking terms the astonishing capabilities and activities of American and British electronic spooks, explaining the fevered public debates about privacy and security shaking the world. From Hong Kong to Moscow, from secluded Brazilian mansions to fortified London newspaper offices, The Snowden Files follows the journalists, diplomats and spies drawn into the vortex of Snowden's revelations, which have altered the fabric of our internet age.