[Peace-discuss] Fwd: The failed effort to silence Edward Snowden

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> From: Glenn Greenwald <membership at emails.theintercept.com>
> Date: September 19, 2019 at 11:14:22 AM CDT
> To: <cgestabrook at gmail.com>
> Subject: The failed effort to silence Edward Snowden
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> The U.S. government is once again trying to silence Edward Snowden — this time with a lawsuit arguing that he should have allowed the CIA and NSA to censor his new memoir before publication.
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> The book doesn’t contain any secrets that haven’t already been made public; the government simply doesn’t want more discussion and debate of the mass surveillance systems he revealed.
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> The good news is that the six-year attempt to silence Snowden has so far failed spectacularly, in no small part because of The Intercept’s coverage. Our team spent years combing through the Snowden archive, publishing over 100 stories and partnering with major news organizations, and we continue to fearlessly report on spying by governments and corporations across the globe.
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