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The first deals with greenwalds contact with snowden and their collaboration to leak the documents. I cant write without taking notes, so, like snowden, i had to violate that part of my oath in order to serve a higher. I think about the repercussions that snowden had to deal with. No place to hide is a hugely important book that deserves the widest possible audience perhaps oliver stones forthcoming film will help raise its profile. By glenn greenwald, star of citizenfour, the academy awardwinning documentary on edward snowden.
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