Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
He saw the surveillance machine from inside. Then he burned it down.
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you want to understand the full price of telling the truth
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Edward Snowden was 29 when he leaked the most significant collection of classified documents in NSA history. "Permanent Record" is how he got there — and why. It's the autobiography of a man who saw the entire architecture of American surveillance from inside the intelligence community, understood what it meant, and chose to tell the truth about it at significant personal cost. He's been living in Moscow ever since. Read this as a systems document: here's what was built, here's who built it, here's what it does to the idea of a private life. Then decide whether you trust the government to watch you responsibly.
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