New Book just released: "The Snowden Files" by Luke Harding a reporter from the Guardian

At last the book so many worldwide has been waiting for! The Story of Edward Snowden's BRAVE decision to warn the world.

To the USA Snowden is at this moment the "world's most wanted man". And with all the media attention for almost a year, this book promises to be a best seller. According to the CNN,

The Guardian is a key player in the Snowden saga, having provided an outlet for the former NSA contractor-turned-whistle-blower to expose what he knew about the U.S. government's mass surveillance programs. Harding accessed a wealth of inside information, such as this story about how Snowden first connected via e-mail with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald.

This promises not only interesting reading, but vital information to continual and viable living in an ever changing world with privacy that are daily being infringed and step by step limited and dispelled. 

The book will also be released in the USA by next week. How did the Guardian balance this tricky one, keeping in mind the highly sensitive material it will contain? According to CCN, 

 The Guardian's U.S. Editor Janine Gibson drew up plan before publishing, including seeking legal advice and working out a strategy for approaching the White House. She had some tough decisions to make.

Harding wrote: "Gibson decided to give the NSA a four-hour window to comment, so the agency had an opportunity to disavow the story. By British standards, the deadline was fair: long enough to make a few calls, agree a line. But for Washington, where journalist-administration relations sometimes resemble a country club, this was nothing short of outrageous."

Harding said Gibson's tough decisions meant she'd have to face down some tough people, including FBI deputy director Sean M. Joyce, NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, and Robert S. Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The author writes: "By fielding heavyweights, the White House had perhaps reckoned it could flatter, and if necessary bully, the Guardian into delaying publication. Gibson explained that the editor-in-chief -- in the air halfway across the Atlantic -- was unavailable. She said: 'I'm the final decision-maker.' After 20 minutes, the White House was frustrated. The conversation was going in circles. Finally, one of the team could take no more. Losing his temper, he shouted, 'You don't need to publish this! No serious news organisation would publish this!' Gibson replied, 'With the greatest respect, we will take the decisions about what we publish.'"

The newspaper ran the story and, soon thereafter, Snowden disappeared. He's currently in Russia, where he has asylum.

"I think ... he's achieved far more than he could have possibly imagined when he was sitting in Hawaii planning this leak," Harding told CNN on Sunday.

The problem I DO have with this book though is that Harding who wrote this never even met or spoke to Snowden. But be it as it may, with companies that always go the financial way - there will be something in writing that due to fact of all the worldwide attention and scrutiny must definitely contain facts that matter no matter the agenda...

You know what's so hilarious? By making such a 'fuss' about Snowden and trying to locate him by ALL means, the US Government made EVERYONE aware of this whole agenda of tapping into everyone's life... By labelling someone as most wanted, they exposed themselves as found wanted...