The NSA, Truth and Reality

Marc Ambinder
9 min readMay 20, 2020

What I See When I Look Through Bart Gellman’s Dark Mirror

Bart Gellman’s Dark Mirror is not a history of the National Security Agency, nor is it a biography of Edward Snowden, whose documents Gellman published in the Washington Post, and it’s not even a polemic about government surveillance. What it is, at its core, is an account of his reporting on these subjects. That’s what…

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Marc Ambinder

Adjunct Prof., USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication; contributor at @theweek and @USAToday. Latest book: The Brink, about nuclear war.