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The "world's most wanted man" may be holed up in Russia, but Edward Snowden's story will soon be available -- as they say -- everywhere books are sold.

"The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man," by reporter Luke Harding, from the British newspaper The Guardian, comes out in the UK this week, with a U.S. release date of February 11.

The Guardian is a key player in the Snowden saga, having provided an outlet for the former NSA contractor-turned-whistle-blower to expose what he knew about the U.S. government's mass surveillance programs. Harding accessed a wealth of inside information, such as this story about how Snowden first connected via e-mail with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Harding writes in the book: "This mystery correspondent asked Greenwald to install PGP encryption software on his laptop. Once up and running, it guarantees privacy (the initials stand for Pretty Good Privacy) for an online chat. Greenwald had no objections. But there were two problems. 'I'm basically technically illiterate,' he admits. Greenwald also had a lingering sense that the kind of person who insisted on encryption might turn out to be slightly crazy."

Greenwald and Snowden eventually built a mutual trust, and the former IT contractor divulged many of the top secret documents in his possession.

At that point, The Guardian's U.S. Editor Janine Gibson drew up plan before publishing, including seeking legal advice and working out a strategy for approaching the White House. She had some tough decisions to make.

Harding wrote: "Gibson decided to give the NSA a four-hour window to comment, so the agency had an opportunity to disavow the story. By British standards, the deadline was fair: long enough to make a few calls, agree a line. But for Washington, where journalist-administration relations sometimes resemble a country club, this was nothing short of outrageous."

Harding said Gibson's tough decisions meant she'd have to face down some tough people, including FBI deputy director Sean M. Joyce, NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, and Robert S. Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The author writes: "By fielding heavyweights, the White House had perhaps reckoned it could flatter, and if necessary bully, the Guardian into delaying publication. Gibson explained that the editor-in-chief -- in the air halfway across the Atlantic -- was unavailable. She said: 'I'm the final decision-maker.' After 20 minutes, the White House was frustrated. The conversation was going in circles. Finally, one of the team could take no more. Losing his temper, he shouted, 'You don't need to publish this! No serious news organisation would publish this!' Gibson replied, 'With the greatest respect, we will take the decisions about what we publish.'"

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Monday, February 3, 2014

Edward Snowden, a Party to Subverting Nations in Latin America

By Jerry Brewer

To those of the naivet persuasion who believe that Edward Joseph Snowden [30] is a hero for democracy and/or world freedom as a whistleblower, Latin America is simply one region of the globe that is experiencing the sour and bitter notes of his whistle playing, while he has taken up a convenient place of residence in Russia.

Let us not forget a fellow player of this rogue orchestra of oratorical disharmony, one Julian Paul Assange [42]. Since June 19, 2012 Assange has resided cozily in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been granted diplomatic asylum.

Assange initially started with WikiLeaks in 2006, and subsequently began to publish US military and diplomatic documents that exposed secrets, sources and methods.

What do Snowden and Assange share in common, and who has facilitated their agendas and exploited their operational acts?

The dark and shadowy specter of espionage, with its many tentacles of manipulation and world players, are indeed suspect in a myriad of applications.

As the exploits of Snowden and Assange alone seem to primarily focus on the US, they are joined by leftwing rogue nation leaders and their own devious security services who point their crooked fingers at democracy -- spy versus spy is alive and well in virtually every corner of the world, and it will remain quite possibly until the end of time.

Reportedly, espionage preceded biblical times. A modern colloquialism references, The satanic serpent, an agent operating under the cover of a reptile, who enlisted Eve as an intelligence asset to destabilize the relationship between God and the Garden of Eden.Although a graphic philosophical illustration, it does identify the purpose and essential ethic of the intelligence craft -- coaxing your contact to part with confidences.

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Edward Snowden, a Party to Subverting Nations in Latin America