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"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
2) Citizenfour
Publisher
RADiUS TWC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter for "The Guardian" presents an assessment of the NSA surveillance scandal that has triggered debates over national security and information privacy to explore its alliances and consequences.
4) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An employee of the National Security Agency leaks their illegal surveillance techniques to the public by distributing thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf. Gellman took his own path. Snowden and his...
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