‘The government may steal a dollar, but it cannot erase the idea that earned it,’ the NSA whistleblower said following a federal court ruling
Profits earned from Edward Snowden’s new book, Permanent Record, will be taken by the United States government, a judge has ruled, meaning that for anyone purchasing a copy for a Christmas gift, the money won’t go to the author.
“The government seeks to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden because of his failure to submit his publication for pre-publication review in violation of his alleged contractual and fiduciary obligations,” says a department press release. — Edward Snowden December 19, 2019He went on to suggest people gift the book to someone else when they’re done reading it.
Snowden was the man who, back in 2013, swiped classified documents from a government facility in Hawaii and transported them to Hong Kong, where he then handed them over to journalists from the Guardian, a British newspaper. It became an international scandal as journalists revealed the extent to which U.S. security agencies had been spying on cellphones. Snowden then relocated to Russia and settled — and remains — in Moscow.
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