The title of Dark Mirror alludes to thatĭesign, which takes literal form at the National Security Agency on Fort George G. On our side, opaque, the watchers went unseen. As intelligence agencies threw off old restraints, they positioned themselves as if behind one-way mirrors. Surveillance and secrecy grew together, side by side. It followed, from this way of thinking, that the public must not be permitted to know what the government was doing in its name. New methods of electronic surveillance impinged on the digital commons used by just about everyone, encompassing us all in a pool of potential threats. government came to believe it could not spy on enemies without turning its gaze on Americans as well. It is a tour of the surveillance state that rose up after September 11, 2001, when the U.S. Dark Mirror is not a book about Snowden, or not only that. I have built this narrative by my own lights and reporting. His parting words were a challenge, not a promise. Shortly after this exchange, he fled his Hong Kong hotel room ahead of an extradition request from the United States. His book takes up the gauntlet that Edward Snowden threw down for me that day, the same day he unmasked himself to the world. Author’s chat with Edward Snowden, June 9, 2013 One step at a time and you climb up the mountain. PREFACE How did you do it? How did you extract all that information and cross a border with it? It’s just a question of being smarter than the adversary. pid_prh_5.5.0_c0_r1įor my children: Abigail, Micah, Lily, and Benjamin
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