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In 2014, journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian Luke Harding published the book "The Snowden Files", which, as evident from the name, tells about a former CIA employee Edward Snowden, has discovered a secret U.S. intelligence documents. The film rights to the book have been bought by Hollywood Director Oliver stone - rumored to be paid was 700 thousand dollars. The book repeatedly refers to ideological ally of Snowden, the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange. Especially for Newsweek Assange wrote a review of the book strongly criticizes and Luke Harding, and methods of work of The Guardian.
Assange is familiar with the work of Harding - in 2011, journalist together with another employee of The Guardian David Leigham released a book about WikiLeaks. In her efforts of co-author Harding was published the secret password that opened public access to the hundreds of thousands of unedited documents of the U.S. state Department. This time Harding worked alone, and there are no secret passwords in print has not got, ironically the Creator of WikiLeaks.
Assange reminds Luke Harding in 2007, when he worked in Moscow, was accused of plagiarism. His new book literally quoting the work of others will not suspect, but his own journalistic work in it a little. The journalist never met with Snowden and didn't speak to him; "The Snowden Files" relies on the facts produced by other people, in the book there are almost no original material. Computer skills Harding describes as if it were magic from the books about Harry Potter, Assange writes, speaks very impressively than advertising works in The Guardian. It said that the word processor Harding himself was removed whole paragraphs of the book, the journalist wrote it.
""This is the NSA? The GCHQ in the UK? Russian hacker?“ - mentioned in the article. And maybe, just maybe, the reader, a bit of Devonshire cream came under the Backspace key?"
Many episodes of the book is simply untrue, says Assange, for Example, it States that Assange "manic tried to get in contact with Snowden" and be in the center of events, although in reality, according to the founder of WikiLeaks, Snowden first contacted him. Where Harding's not enough parts, he was speculating for Snowden, for example, wrote that "Snowden here would have allowed himself to grin", thus creating a story without the facts.
The Guardian appears in the book the fighter for freedom of speech, says Assange, but actually the edition, for example, allowed the authorities to destroy the computers with the Snowden files. Moreover, originally The Guardian was not going to publish materials Snowden, but insisted on that journalist Glenn Greenwald, and later retired with the British edition - rumored, because of the censorship, says Assange.
A whole Chapter of the book is devoted to the reasoning does not hold if Russia Snowden hostage. Outside of the alternate reality Harding Edward Snowden is a refugee, which Russia does not hold in captivity, emphasizes Assange. Even if Russia is bad for their journalists and dissidents, the decision to give Snowden asylum deserves praise.