Listen to Our Exclusive Snowden Investigation on (Vanity Fair) Audio

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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/04/edward-snowden-vf-audio

In this month’s edition of V.F. Audio—the audio edition of the magazine, featuring narrators reading a selection of stories from its monthly print pages—listen to the comprehensive account, based on dozens of independent interviews, and with extensive input from Edward Snowden himself, about how the former National Security Agency contractor gained access to tens of thousands of secret government documents and became the most important whistle-blower of modern times. In the excerpt below from the May issue’s “The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light,” by special correspondent Bryan Burrough and contributing editors Suzanna Andrews and Sarah Ellison, hear the beginning of the spy-novel-worthy tale, including Snowden’s defense of his motives and his attempt to set the record straight. To listen to the full story, download the May issue of V.F. Audio here.

eta: You have to pay $4.95 to download the entire May issue. Darn.

eta2: You can listen to a 16 minute Soundcloud file here.

eta3: The Soundcloud file is more of an introduction to the article.