What is the ruling that was brought in a government lawsuit blaming Snowden's work that accused CIA / NSA of “violating a confidentiality agreement”?
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Edward Snowden , a former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who accused the United States of America in 2013 of running a system `` PRISM '' that looks at personal information on Google and Apple servers, ' Permanent Record ' is published. A book sued by the US government in September 2019 for a “non-disclosure agreement violation” was judged by Judge Liam Ogrady of the Eastern District Court of Virginia.
Edward Snowden must give government money from new book, judge says
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/edward-snowden-must-give-government-money-from-new-book-judge-says.html
Judge Ogradi has ruled that Mr. Snowden must pay the government the proceeds from his book because it violates what is required by the employment contract. At the time of writing, Judge Ogledy did not elaborate on the specific amount that should be paid to the US government for Snowden's book. The amount is likely to be determined at a later date by Judge Ogrady.
According to Judge Ogradi's judgment, all non-disclosure agreements signed when Mr Snowden belonged to the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) stated that `` information and materials must not be disclosed without permission '' The US government's complaint that 'Snowden violated a confidentiality agreement signed while working as a CIA employee and NSA employee' was approved.
'Snowden's book details CIA and NSA's information gathering activities, including confidential matters, and Snowden has not received permission to publish books from either the CIA or NSA.' And that. According to the ruling, the materials presented at the talks and events by Mr. Snowden also contain the most confidential content that has not been approved for disclosure, and Mr. Snowden has all the information data, documents, presentations, etc. he has created so far You are asked to submit.
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Mr. Brett Max Kaufman, a lawyer for Snowden, said, “It is unnatural to think that the government has sincerely reviewed his submissions, such as Snowden ’s books. We chose to pay the copyright royalty to the government rather than subject the book to censorship by dishonest government.We challenge the court decision and consider reexaminations. It ’s clear that there ’s a need for major reforms in the pre-publication review system that is unfair and opaque to staff. ”
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