There is much more to this book than I can convey in a single column: you need to read it for yourself in order to get the full scope and flavor of it. I read it in a single sitting not just because I had to but because it's hard to put down. Especially informative is a clear, concise description of the NSA's surveillance programs, what they do, and whom they're aimed at -- and it isn't the "terrorists." It's all of us.
I do, however, have one nit to pick: Greenwald is a bit too harsh on Silicon Valley, whom he accuses of acting in all too willing complicity with the NSA. Yet he himself cites Yahoo's heroic courtroom effort to avoid being complicit, and doesn't seem to understand a simple fact: when a gun is pointed at your head you don't have much choice in the matter. Yes, no doubt some corporate types were a bit too averse to resisting the government's demands, but Greenwald fails to make the morally important distinction between reluctant collaborators acting under the threat of force and those who were (and are) eager to do the NSA's bidding.
Yet this is a minor flaw: all in all, No Place to Hide is a vitally important contribution to the fight for a free society. No wonder statists on the right and the left are up in arms over it -- and that, all by itself, is reason enough to read it, enjoy it, and recommend it to your friends.
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