9/12 - Continuing Ed — with Edward Snowden
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The Greatest Regret Of My Life
The following is an excerpt from my memoir, Permanent Record, available in most languages wherever fine books are sold. Pandemonium, chaos: our most ancient forms of terror. They both refer to a collapse of order and the panic that rushes in to fill the void. For as long as I live, I’ll remember retracing my way up Canine Road—the road past the NSA’s headquarters—after the Pentagon was attacked. Madness poured out of the agency’s black glass towers, a tide of yelling, ringing cell phones, and cars revving up in the parking lots and fighting their way onto the street. At the moment of the…
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