Under the guise of `national security` and the `war on terrorism`, the Patriot Act, signed into law by President Bush in 2001, after the terrorist attack on World Trade Center, allowed the intelligence agencies to increase their surveillance capacities and to be free of any obstruction from the judicial wing of the state in the pursue of their suspects. The whistleblower, Edward Snowden, a former systems administrator at the National Security Agency (NSA), revealed the magnitude of the capacities that the IC had in intercepting and collecting the communications and data of millions of its citizens and of foreign nationals. Seven years ago, a whistleblower under the pseudonym Citezenfour released to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras documents that were to rock the foundations of the American intelligence community (IC). Snowden and his wife have recently applied for dual US-Russian citizenship, to protect his unborn son, and make sure their family won't be separated. Raul Pavel from Carturesti bookshops uncovers the first book written by whistleblower Edward Snowden: his memoirs about the National Security Agency documents he leaked back in 2013.
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