Harding, Luke, 1968-

The Snowden files : the inside story of the world's most wanted man / Luke Harding. - First Vintage books edition. - 346 pages ; 21 cm

Originally published in Great Britain by Guardian Books, London, and Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2014. Adapted into a film titled Snowden by Oliver Stone in 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Alan Rusbridger -- Prologue: The rendezvous -- TheTrueHOOHA -- Civil disobedience -- The source -- Puzzle palace -- The man in the room -- Scoop! -- The planet's most wanted man -- All the signals of all time -- You've had your fun -- Don't be evil -- Flight -- Der Shitstorm! -- The broom cupboard -- Shoot the messenger -- Epilogue: Exile.

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. Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden's 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.

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United States. National Security Agency.
United States. National Security Agency.
United States. National Security Agency.
Bitterfeld
United States. National Security Agency.


Whistle blowing--United States.
Leaks (Disclosure of information)--United States.
Domestic intelligence--United States.
Electronic surveillance--United States.
Computer crimes--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--International Security.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political.
TRUE CRIME--Espionage.
Whistle blowing--United States.
Leaks (Disclosure of information)--United States.
Domestic intelligence--United States.
Electronic surveillance--United States.
Computer crimes--United States.
Computer crimes.
Domestic intelligence.
Electronic surveillance.
Leaks (Disclosure of information)
Whistle blowing.
Geheimdienst
Whistle-blowing.


Databrott.
Electronic surveillance--United States.
American espionage.


United States.


True crime stories.
Nonfiction.
True crime stories.
True crime stories.

JF1525.W45 / H37 2014

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