Why is Edward Snowden so alone? It is 4:00 am and I have just finished reading, in one sitting, the
Kindle download of a book that I intended only to skim because I thought
that I knew the full story.
What was compelling was encountering the courage and decency of this
whistle-blower and that of the few brave journalists willing to honestly
tell his story.
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| NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (DN!) |
That and the justifiable contempt for those in the
housebroken media and compromised government who felt the need to
besmirch the character of those willing to bear witness to crimes that
almost everyone else in a position to know chose to ignore.
The result is a page-turner survey of just what the Snowden leaks
tell us about the creation of the modern surveillance state and a
reminder of the deep wisdom of this nation’s founders in insisting on
the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.
This is a brilliant book that you will want to pass on to that
neighbor absolutely convinced that the hollowing out of liberty has made
us safer.
Glenn Greenwald reminds us just why the Guardian and
Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in publishing
the documents that Edward Snowden made available, and how outrageous it
is that his effort to inform the public of attacks on our freedom has
left this brave young man a hunted fugitive. More
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