The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the Worlds Most Wanted Man By Luke Harding

Snowdon lives for a much higher purpose than you and me. He is the only one willing to pay the price of his own freedom to safeguard the freedom of the average person on the street. I have yet to see anyone so courageous as Snowdon is. I want to point out the 978-1783350377 A spectacularly badly written book, but probably still worth reading for some of the factual content. Contains several technical solecisms and it seems that Tim Berners Lee invented the Internet. Who knew? It is fascinating to see how deeply into the story the Guardian 978-1783350377 A well written description of the Snowden affair in fact one is lead to wonder whether the author was deliberately lining it up for a movie from the start. Is Snowden a conscientious hero of freedom or a dangerous double agent? The author of the book is pretty clear where 978-1783350377

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Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for America's National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way this frighteningly powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the entire planet. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop. From the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Hawaii, carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of secret spilling in Hong Kong and his battle for asylum, Snowden's story reads like a globe trotting thriller. The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the Worlds Most Wanted Man

Luke Harding has written a rather balanced and well informed book about the revelations of Edward Snowden. I happened to read Andrew O'Hagan's article on Julian Assange and it is clear that they are pretty different. Politically and as personalities. It seems that Snowden 978-1783350377 It feels like a hastily written book to capitalise on the timing of this event, nevertheless its a very interesting and often jaw dropping account told from the perspective of the journalists that broke the story. Although it didn't seem to make that much of an impact 978-1783350377 I bought two books on the Snowden affair to try and get different angles on the story. This one is very much pro Snowden and anti NSA/GCHQ while the other (by Edward Lucas) is really quite the opposite. This was a well written account which raises many questions 978-1783350377 I review this book as a Brit. Hence my perspective will be different to those from other nations whom we share this world with. But we are all human beings, trying to find our way through life, making this world we share a better place for those that come after us. And this 978-1783350377 Whatever one thinks about Edward Snowden, whether he is a traitor who deserves a very long term of imprisonment, or whether he is a hero who has sacrificed his future to expose an Orwellian world of unauthorized surveillance and law breaking, one cannot deny the the 978-1783350377