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He said he had just written the memoir Permanent Record, which recounted his life and the post9/11 changes in technology and government, and noted that its release prompted lawsuits against him and his publisher.
So I came on because I had just written a book called Permanent Record which is the story of my life because that's what publishers make you do when you're writing your first book. But it's more than...
— Episode: #1368 - Edward Snowden
Episode: #1368 - Edward Snowden
He said he had just written the memoir Permanent Record, which recounted his life and the post9/11 changes in technology and government, and noted that its release prompted lawsuits against him and his publisher.
So I came on because I had just written a book called Permanent Record which is the story of my life because that's what publishers make you do when you're writing your first book. But it's more than that because I didn't just want to talk about me. It's actually about the changing of technology and the changing of government in this sort of post911 era.
And I was at the CIA and the NSA and all this stuff, but the day that the book came out, the government hit me with a lawsuit. And they hit the publisher of the books with a lawsuit because they don't want to see books like this get written. They especially don't want to see books like this get read.
Sure yes it is it's on shelves everywhere at least until the government finds some other way to ban it. It is called a Permanent Record.