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    Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State: Based on the Book by Glenn Greenwald
    Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State: Based on the Book by Glenn Greenwald
    Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State: Based on the Book by Glenn Greenwald
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    Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State: Based on the Book by Glenn Greenwald

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of No Place to Hide tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Glenn Greenwald’s book.
     
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    About No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald:
     
    Journalist and constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide is a personal narrative about his communication with Edward Snowden and an extensive exploration of the true nature, size, and impact of global NSA surveillance.
     
    Greenwald’s book is a fascinating firsthand account that explores issues of privacy in the digital age; the reach of the NSA; and its power to watch our every move, monitor trade negotiations, and coerce citizens into action.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781504044851
    Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State: Based on the Book by Glenn Greenwald
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      Summary and Analysis of No Place to Hide - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Glenn Greenwald

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      The history of American domestic surveillance of its civilians is lengthy, well documented, and difficult to defend. J. Edgar Hoover abused his powers at the FBI for nearly four decades, spying on activists, dissidents, and political opponents of all kinds. Political theorists and researchers of American history such as A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, and muckraker H. L. Mencken have suggested that there is evidence that every administration since President Woodrow Wilson engaged in some form of mail reading, wiretapping, shadowing, and general spying on civilians who, in most cases, were found to have been engaged in no violent political activity.

      After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act, which gave the government unprecedented domestic surveillance powers. Most people had little idea how much those powers trespassed on their privacy and civil liberties until 2013, when whistle-blower Edward Snowden leaked a treasure trove of documents from his job at the NSA. These documents revealed high-level spying by the agency on ordinary citizens. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the famous Pentagon Papers in 1971 and revealed US involvement in war crimes in Vietnam, said that there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material.

      While, after the leaks, the media depicted Snowden as a disgruntled, low-level employee, he was actually a high-level and highly valued systems engineer for a range of

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