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Informationen zum Autor Luke Harding is a journalist! writer and award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian . He has reported from Delhi! Berlin and Moscow and covered wars in Afghanistan! Iraq! Libya and Syria. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Guardian's Moscow bureau chief; the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war. He is the author of The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitkin ! nominated for the Orwell Prize! Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy ! both written with David Leigh! and Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia . Luke Harding lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and their two children. Klappentext It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one man, Edward Snowden. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop. In The Snowden Files , Luke Harding tells the story of Edward Snowden and the individuals behind the biggest leak in history. Zusammenfassung It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever! brought about by one man! Edward Snowden. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop.
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The saga of Edward J. Snowden, the man whose leaked documents revealed the Orwellian dimensions of the National Security Agency, reads like a le Carré novel crossed with something by Kafka - at least it does in Luke Harding's new book, The Snowden Files ... But the book still gives readers, who have not been following the Snowden story closely, a succinct overview of the momentous events of the past year. And if it leans toward dramatizing everything in thrillerlike terms, the book also manages to leave readers with an acute understanding of the serious issues involved: the N.S.A.'s surveillance activities and voluminous collection of data, and the consequences that this sifting of bigger and bigger haystacks for tiny needles has had on the public and its right to privacy. Michiko Kakutani New York Times
