What role, if any, Mr Snowden’s Russian handlers had in the emergence of his memoir is not specified
SPIES DO NOT usually want to be famous. But in 2013 Edward Snowden, then 30 years old, briefly became one of the best-known people in the world. Living in a hotel room in Hong Kong, working with journalists and armed with reams of documents belonging to the National Security Agency , America’s main electronic-spying organisation, he laid bare that agency's efforts to build a system of enormous, indiscriminate, global surveillance.
The September 11th attacks inspired Mr Snowden to join up, he writes. But his brief stint in the army was ended by a training injury. While he was convalescing, he decided to put his technical abilities in service of an American intelligence community traumatised by its inability to prevent the attacks.
He describes XKEYSCORE, a sort of private search engine fuelled by the NSA’s spying efforts. It allows analysts, operating with little oversight, to view at will the private emails, chats, images, and files of almost anyone with an internet connection, up to and including Supreme Court justices and the president himself. He describes watching an Indonesian engineer through the webcam of his computer, as the man’s infant son sat on his lap and batted at the keyboard.
This is Mr Snowden’s account of an episode that still provokes powerful emotions. He says mass surveillance directly contradicts both the spirit and letter of America's constitution, which is designed to protect its citizens from an over-mighty government. His former employers decry him as a traitor. Western officials have alleged that China and Russia have managed to decrypt some of the cache of documents he took, something that, on Mr Snowden's telling, should be impossible.
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