First, Glenn Greenwald describes the time from the first contacts with Edward Snowden until his trip to Hong Kong. On offer is a perfect spy thriller and succeeds impossible to put the book out of my hand. It is directly disappointing when Greenwald departs from Hong Kong and "his crime" ends at the side of the "whistleblowers".
But for the journalist Greenwald Snowden's adventure was at this point actually completed and it follows the time of publication, where difficult negotiations on publication or dissemination of the documents are in the foreground. In this part you will also find all the documents and facsimiles that were originally published in the newspapers. Even that came a little disappointing, but I (clearly) have more information expected as I had previously already received reports. Ultimately Greenwald remains true to his line, proceed sensitively to black name to hurt no personal rights. step by step and not to publish targeted. He does not want to endanger the safety of the United States, but uncover threatening developments in its interior. It would have been pointless to to publish all documents on Wikileaks simply because without expert explanations it would be ignorant impossible to classify their meaning. And in a complete flood of information the essentials would perish.
In the final chapters, there is again a similar thriller because Greenwald now describes what happened to him personally by the publications and how they fare those who make intelligence to the enemy. However, it is more a psychological drama in which many interesting reflections on the dangers of surveillance are presented.
But all that does not come sobering or scary. The book is a source of many remarkable ideas, leaving the strong will to change something, do not be intimidated, because that would only benefit those who are stuck on the pretext of combating terrorism its nose into things that do not concern them.
My absolute recommendation!
