In another tweet, he spoke of an “international conspiracy.” Helping to create that system is my greatest regret,” Snowden says in the video clip accompanying the tweet. “Everything that we do now lasts forever, not because we want to remember but because we’re no longer allowed to forget. Snowden announced the news in a straightforward tweet, saying “I wrote a book.” Macmillan is enormously proud to publish ‘Permanent Record.’” There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private place for his actions. “He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. “Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country,” John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers, said in a statement.
Snowden faces criminal charges in the US, and has been living in exile in Russia since 2013. Privacy advocates hailed him as a hero, while others denounced him as a traitor. Snowden ignited a fierce debate about national security and individual privacy after his leak of classified intelligence documents.
It details the whistleblower’s early life, his work at US intelligence agencies, and “puts the reader in his mindset as he made the decisions he made,” according to Patricia Eisemann, a spokesperson for Metropolitan Books, which is a subdivision of Macmillan Publishers. The book, titled “Permanent Record,” is set to be released on September 17. Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of classified documents about a US government program of mass surveillance in 2013, is sharing his story with the world in a new memoir.
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