The Snowden files
Subtitle: the inside story of the world's most wanted man
By: Luke Harding
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780804173520
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Leaks (Disclosure of information); United States. National Security Agency; United States; Computer crimes; Whistle blowing; Domestic intelligence
Description: "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 of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy. In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden's astonishing story--from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story--touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector--while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself. The result is a gripping insider narrative--and a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age"--

"The story of Edward Snowden and his shocking surveillance revelations"--
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Guardian Books, London, and Faber and Faber Ltd., London"--Title-page verso.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.