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Does Edward Snowden know fact from fiction?

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published September 20, 2019 5:20pm ET
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Does Edward Snowden know fact from fiction?
FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File) | Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras

Edward Snowden would like you to think of him not only as a whistleblower, but also as a man of conscience.

His new memoir, Permanent Record, appears poised to frame Snowden as he has hoped to be known all along — someone who’s just after the truth.

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