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Dark Mirror - Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State (Paperback)
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Dark Mirror - Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State (Paperback)
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"Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . .
a marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides
us through complex technical arcana and some stubborn ethical
questions. . . . Dark Mirror would be simply pleasurable to read if
the story it told didn't also happen to be frighteningly real."
-Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times From the three-time Pulitzer
Prize winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Angler,
the definitive master narrative of Edward Snowden and the modern
surveillance state, based on unique access to Snowden and
groundbreaking reportage around the world. Edward Snowden touched
off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura
Poitras and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of
highly classified files revealing the extent of the American
government's access to our every communication. They shared the
Pulitzer Prize that year for public service. For Gellman, who never
stopped reporting, that was only the beginning. He jumped off from
what Snowden gave him to track the reach and methodology of the
U.S. surveillance state and bring it to light with astonishing new
clarity. Along the way, he interrogated Snowden's own history and
found important ways in which myth and reality do not line up.
Gellman treats Snowden with respect, but this is no hagiographic
account, and Dark Mirror sets the record straight in ways that are
both fascinating and important. Dark Mirror is the story that
Gellman could not tell before, a gripping inside narrative of
investigative reporting as it happened and a deep dive into the
machinery of the surveillance state. Gellman recounts the puzzles,
dilemmas and tumultuous events behind the scenes of his work - in
top secret intelligence facilities, in Moscow hotel rooms, in
huddles with Post lawyers and editors, in Silicon Valley executive
suites, and in encrypted messages from anonymous accounts. Within
the book is a compelling portrait of national security journalism
under pressure from legal threats, government investigations, and
foreign intelligence agencies intent on stealing Gellman's files.
Throughout Dark Mirror, Gellman wages an escalating battle against
unknown adversaries who force him to mimic their tradecraft in
self-defense. With the vivid and insightful style that is the
author's trademark, Dark Mirror is a true-life spy tale about the
surveillance-industrial revolution and its discontents. Along the
way, with the benefit of fresh reporting, it tells the full story
of a government leak unrivaled in drama since All the President's
Men.
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