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The 'crime' in this case is violation of the non-disclosure without submitting for pre-publication review. The book may or not contain sensitive information.

by jariel 6y ago

The 'crime' in this case is violation of the non-disclosure without submitting for pre-publication review. The book may or not contain sensitive information. It probably does not, otherwise, the government would be pushing to suppress it. It could simply be a legal decision, in that, they may not actually have the ability or right to block it unless it does contain sensitive information, so this is all they can do. Or it could be possible the CIA/NSA for whatever reason actually want the book to be published. Or perhaps there is some kind of unknown policy that specifically forbids those from doing such things from profiting in such a manner and the policy is just being carried out. Nobody at the CIA is going to care about the money involved. It is odd though.

philipov 6y ago
> It probably does not, otherwise, the government would be pushing to suppress it. The information is already released. Pushing to suppress it would be ineffectual while confirming that the book contains sensitive information.
- jariel 6y ago
  "The information is already released." We don't know that though. Snowden spent a lot of time doing what he did, and still has a ton of insider information. Anything he talks about in terms of his experience as a contract is probably subject to the agreement. If you work for Apple, and then write a book talking about all of the meetings, transactions, decision inputs, criteria for projects, talk about projects that never came to light etc. - they probably would probably sue and try to stop publication. So it's hard to say exactly what is going on.
  - philipov 6y ago
    No, we know that the book has been published and the information in it has been released. That can't be stopped anymore, because the people who are interested in it already have it. What we don't know is whether the information that was released is valuable or not. The only thing that trying to stop publication does is confirm to everyone that the information was valuable, giving credibility to it when before we didn't know how credible it was.

by jariel 6y ago

philipov 6y ago

> It probably does not, otherwise, the government would be pushing to suppress it. The information is already released. Pushing to suppress it would be ineffectual while confirming that the book contains sensitive information.

jariel 6y ago
"The information is already released." We don't know that though. Snowden spent a lot of time doing what he did, and still has a ton of insider information. Anything he talks about in terms of his experience as a contract is probably subject to the agreement. If you work for Apple, and then write a book talking about all of the meetings, transactions, decision inputs, criteria for projects, talk about projects that never came to light etc. - they probably would probably sue and try to stop publication. So it's hard to say exactly what is going on.
- philipov 6y ago
  No, we know that the book has been published and the information in it has been released. That can't be stopped anymore, because the people who are interested in it already have it. What we don't know is whether the information that was released is valuable or not. The only thing that trying to stop publication does is confirm to everyone that the information was valuable, giving credibility to it when before we didn't know how credible it was.