Judge rules Snowden cannot profit from book

Source: The Hill | December 18, 2019 | Justine Coleman

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Edward Snowden cannot profit from his book published this year because he violated secrecy agreements with U.S. security agencies.

U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady decided the former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor broke his contract by not getting pre-publication clearance from the CIA and NSA for classified information. Snowden released his book, titled “Permanent Record,” in September.

“‘Permanent Record’ contains information which both the CIA and NSA secrecy agreements obligated Snowden to submit for pre-publication review,” O’Grady said in the ruling.

“Accordingly, Snowden’s publication of ‘Permanent Record’ without prior submission for prepublication review breached the CIA and NSA Secrecy agreements,” he continued.

The judge also ruled that Snowden violated these agreements when speaking at an internet security trade fair and two college appearances. 

Snowden and his legal team argued that the CIA and NSA would not have reviewed his book in “good faith” and in an appropriate amount of time, but the judge said that argument is invalid because he didn’t attempt to go through the pre-publication review process.

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