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How America Lost Its Secrets Audiobook Summary

A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become–as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important.

After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden, formerly a subcontracted IT analyst for the NSA, became the center of an international controversy: Was he a hero, traitor, whistle-blower, spy? Was his theft legitimized by the nature of the information he exposed? When is it necessary for governmental transparency to give way to subterfuge? Edward Jay Epstein brings a lifetime of journalistic and investigative acumen to bear on these and other questions, delving into both how our secrets were taken and the man who took them. He makes clear that by outsourcing parts of our security apparatus, the government has made classified information far more vulnerable; how Snowden sought employment precisely where he could most easily gain access to the most sensitive classified material; and how, though he claims to have acted to serve his country, Snowden is treated as a prized intelligence asset in Moscow, his new home.

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Michael Bybee is the narrator of How America Lost Its Secrets audiobook that was written by Edward Jay Epstein

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Narrator Michael Bybee
Length 11 hours 59 minutes
Author Edward Jay Epstein
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 04, 2024
ISBN 9781524755904

Subjects

The publisher of the How America Lost Its Secrets is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Snowden, Politics, Edward Snowden, Hacker, Surveillance, NSA, Controversy, Transparency, Intelligence, Russia, hacking, snowden book, putin, vladimir putin, nsa secrets, nsa surveillance, nsa book, national security, national security intelligence, journalism writing, journalism books, political books, whistleblower, spies, investigative journalism, international relations, edward jay epstein, espionage, spy, crime, cia, government, conspiracy, biographies, political science, fbi, true crime, geopolitics, political philosophy, Political Science, Intelligence & Espionage, True Crime, Espionage The BISAC Subject Code is Intelligence & Espionage, Political Science

Additional info

The publisher of the How America Lost Its Secrets is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524755904.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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