Its out with a new book no place to hide which details his First Encounter with snowden on his trip to hong kong. Everything we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy. He joined me to talk about his work and answered questions from our viewers. Let me start with the book and go back to the first time you met Edward Snowden in hong kong. The book reads like a spy novel at that moment. It was like living in a spy film essentially because we knew a couple of things, that this was certainly the biggest leak in National Security history, that if the u. S. Government found out what it was that he was doing that they would take very extreme mezto put a stop to it one way or the other but we didnt know much else. We didnt know whether the u. S. Government knew anything or what they knew or whether hong kong an anything that was happening. Everything that we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy and snowden as a highly trained operative was
Place to hide which details his First Encounter with snowden on his trip to hong kong. Everything we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy. He joined me to talk about his work and answered questions from our viewers. Let me start with the book and go back to the first time you met Edward Snowden in hong kong. The book reads like a spy novel at that moment. It was like living in a spy film essentially because we knew a couple of things, that this was certainly the biggest leak in National Security history, that if the u. S. Government found out what it was that he was doing that they would take very extreme mezto put a stop to it one way or the other but we didnt know much else. We didnt know whether the u. S. Government knew anything or what they knew or whether hong kong an anything that was happening. Everything that we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy and snowden as a highly trained operative was very well versed in how th
Constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy. He joined me to talk about his work and answered questions from our viewers. Let me start with the book and go back to the first time you met Edward Snowden in hong kong. The book reads like a spy novel at that moment. It was like living in a spy film essentially because we knew a couple of things, that this was certainly the biggest leak in National Security history, that if the u. S. Government found out what it was that he was doing that they would take very extreme mezto put a stop to it one way or the other but we didnt know much else. We didnt know whether the u. S. Government knew anything or what they knew or whether hong kong an anything that was happening. Everything that we did needed constantly to be shrouded in extreme levels of secrecy and snowden as a highly trained operative was very well versed in how that needed to be done. Context. You were surprised what he looked like . Ists shocked by what he looked like. I h
Delighted to be here. This place is a vibrent center celebrating its 10th anniversary. I am asked often for advice on how to promote a book after it has been published. Provocative coverage ever since he gave up practicing law nine years ago, to write columns and books. He started his first blog in 2005 because, as he says in the introduction of his new book, he had become alarmed by the bush administrations post9 11 their arrives executive power and wanted to make a broader impact in his career as a constitutional and civil rights lawyer allowed. By 2007 he had become a contributing writer at salon, and in 2012 he signed if one the guardian having himself as a dogged pursuer of stories involving government overrow. It was glenns aggressive coverage of such controversies arizona warrantless wire tapping by the nsa that led snowden to seek him out and enlist million in the release of the classified files documenting the nsas vast Information Collection apparatus. Glenn tells the story i