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Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Metropolitan Books
May 2014
On Sale: May 13, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 162779073X
EAN: 9781627790734
Kindle: B00E0CZX0G
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Non-Fiction Political
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet
an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence
of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating
only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned
out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and
his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic
overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and
consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce
debate over national security and information privacy. As
the arguments rage on and the government considers various
proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see
the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures. Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces
together, recounting his high-intensity ten-day trip to Hong
Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance
detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing
fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power
with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden
himself. Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the
establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of
adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to
serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it
means both for individuals and for a nation’s political
health when a government pries so invasively into the
private lives of its citizens—and considers what safeguards
and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in
the digital age. Coming at a landmark moment in American
history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and
essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S.
surveillance state.
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