The NSA, Truth and Reality
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…