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"The government was collecting and storing the communications of everyone it possibly could ... not because it was looking for a particular suspect, but because it could."
Source
Edward Snowden — Permanent Record
Snowden, Permanent Record (2019)
Author
Edward Snowden
Date
2019
Credibility & evidentiary value

A firsthand memoir by the NSA contractor whose 2013 disclosures (PRISM, bulk collection) are corroborated by published primary documents. Self-interested narrator; the underlying programs are documented.

Citation · Chicago

Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2019).

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