
He conflates wasteful public spending with mass surveillance. Meandering descriptions which go nowhere. I'd recommend skimming from there to about the halfway point.Įven then, it's flabby. But that's not really why we're here - you can happily skip the first third of the book. I suspect it's to "prove" he's a genuine, mom-and-apple-pie, red-blooded American. What drives a person to jeopardise their career, their family, their life, and - depending on who you believe - their country and its allies? I suppose I could leak the canteen's lunch menu, but that won't make headlines. Luckily, I suppose, I don't often have access to TOP SECRET information.

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
