At the time, he felt that he wasn’t doing much unless it was difficult for him, and computing for him was a breeze.ĩ/11 was the greatest failure in the history of US intelligence agencies. So then he made a decision to support his country using his computer skills, which actually made a lot of sense. But he suffered a serious injury and could not continue.
Snowden was an ardent patriot and decided to join the army, thinking he would contribute to his country’s defence. His life trajectory was dramatically altered by the 9/11 attacks. He became highly adept at computer games and later computer programming and systems analysis. As a youngster in the 1980s and 1990s, he was obsessed with early computers, so much so that his grades in school suffered. It would be a “permanent record,” the title of Snowden’s book. This means your entire life, electronically speaking, could be retrieved and scrutinised. The US IC seeks to collect every bit of electronic information - telephone calls, emails, bank account transactions, social media comments, and so on - about every person on the planet, and to store it forever. Here I focus on insights especially relevant to whistleblowers. It is an engaging account, from his description of his upbringing to how he collected information about NSA surveillance. Permanent Record is Snowden’s autobiography. He became a fugitive and ended up in Russia, where he has lived ever since. After a few days, Snowden went public about his identity. Their stories were front-page news around the world for weeks. In 2013, he leaked a vast collection of information about NSA surveillance to journalists. He discovered that the NSA was involved in a massive programme of collecting electronic information about US citizens, in violation of the US Constitution. Due to his technical skills, Snowden rose rapidly to high positions in handling the agencies’ computer systems.
The CIA and NSA are the two largest and most well known organisations in the US intelligence community (IC). 3-5 Reviewer: Brian MartinĮdward Snowden worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Published in The Whistle (Newsletter of Whistleblowers Australia), No. Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record Learning from SnowdenĪ review of Edward Snowden’s book Permanent Record
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