In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet a source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of
pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels.
That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA spy, teacher, and
Booz Allen Hamilton (mole) contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.
As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures.
In April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at
The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. See Greenwald live and in-person as he puts all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 11-day trip to Hong Kong but more importantly examining the
broader implications of state surveillance detailed in his reporting for
The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented
abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
Greenwald will be signing his new book,
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Coming at a landmark moment in American history,
No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.
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