Barton Gellman: Dark Mirror--Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

11/20/20 • -1 min

Pulitzer-Prize and Emmy award-winning journalist, Barton Gellman became one of the most notable investigative journalists of our time while working with Edward Snowden to expose the machinery of the U.S. surveillance state. His new book, Dark Mirror, is the story he couldn’t tell before -- a real-life spy saga and a gripping narrative of the investigative reporting that exposed a different side of national security. In this episode of Watching America, Dr. Alan Campbell and Gellman dive deeper into not only Snowden’s story, but Gellman’s own determination to stand up for the truth-- and what he discovered about himself along the way.

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