The best thing about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald's gripping new book "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State" is that it's easily adaptable to a screenplay and destined to become a movie.
Indeed, Sony Pictures already has nabbed the rights to adapt the book into a feature film. Doing so ensures that a global conversation about NSA overreach is revived just as it's about to subside — probably a year or two after the final Snowden bombshells are released this summer. And that, in turn, ensures that the scandal of illegal domestic spying will reach millions more people.
Greenwald's book does a nice job of tying all the chilling revelations about domestic spy programs like PRISM into a disturbing thesis. It's a thesis that casts the Internet age in a new light, maintaining that the NSA, by actively "Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance … guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of repression."
At times, the book reads like a Cold War spy novel. As he was about to meet Snowden for the first time, Greenwald writes that his colleague feared their taxi driver in Hong Kong could be an undercover agent. He writes that they were instructed that Snowden would be recognizable as the person "carrying a Rubik's Cube."
"It sounds paranoid … but the government has the capability to activate cellphones and laptops remotely as eavesdropping devices," intrepid filmmaker Laura Poitras, who had an essential role in connecting Greenwald and Snowden, is quoted as telling him in the book.
So the two would remove their mobile phone batteries or keep their cellphones elsewhere whenever they spoke.
A good portion of the book is a veritable smackdown of the mainstream media. Unlike Greenwald's forward charge, Snowden observed that "Rather than report the story quickly and aggressively, the Washington Post had assembled a large team of lawyers who were making all kinds of demands and issuing all sorts of dire warnings."
The book doesn't drop a lot of bombshells, but Greenwald said in a recent interview with GQ that the biggest NSA revelation yet is coming this summer.
"I like to think of it as a fireworks show," he said. "You want to save your best for last."
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