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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man is a 2014 book by Luke Harding, published by Vintage Books.. Greg Miller of The Washington Post described the book as the first single-book account of Edward Snowden's 2013 leaking of National Security Agency (NSA) documents.
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American-Russian former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.
The reports mostly relate to top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents consist of intelligence files relating to the U.S. and other Five Eyes countries. [2] In June 2013, the first of Snowden's documents were published, with further selected documents released to various news outlets through the year.
More than 7,000 top secret documents have been released by journalists Snowden entrusted them to, which some believe is less than 1% of the entire archive.
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. [1] It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. [2]
Heartbeat's servers stored a copy of each scanned document, allowing Snowden to "perform the kind of deep interagency searches that the heads of most agencies could only dream of." Snowden says that nearly all of the documents that he later leaked to journalists were received through Heartbeat. Edward Snowden's former house in Waipahu, Hawaii.
The film closes with Greenwald, Snowden and Poitras meeting once again, this time in Russia. Greenwald and Snowden discuss new emerging details on US intelligence programs, careful to only write down and not speak critical pieces of information. Greenwald tears these documents creating a pile of scraps, before slowly removing them from the table.
Snowden, who leaked highly classified NSA documents in 2013, said there is only “one reason” for appointing the top intelligence official.