Edward Snowden must submit proceeds from his memoir Permanent Record and related speaking engagements to the US government, ruled District Judge Liam O’Grady December 17. Judge O’Grady granted the government’s motion for partial summary judgment, ruling that there was no issue of fact in the lawsuit claiming that Snowden had broken his CIA employment contract by not submitting authored works for pre-publication review. “The contractual language of the Secrecy Agreements is unambiguous,” O’Grady wrote in his decision. “Snowden accepted employment and benefits conditioned upon prepublication review obligations.” Snowden had argued that he had failed to participate because, among other concerns, […]
