Things That Can And Cannot Be Said (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
It was John Cusack asking me if I would go with him to Moscow to meet Edward Snowden. I’d met John several times; I’d walked the streets of Chicago with him, a hulking fellow hunched into his black hoodie, trying not to be recognized. I’d seen and loved several of the iconic films he has written and acted in and I knew that he’d come out early on Snowden’s side with “The Snowden Principle,” an essay he wrote only days after the story broke and the US government was calling for Snowden’s head.1 We had had conversations that usually lasted several hours, but I embraced Cusack as a true comrade only after I opened his freezer and found nothing but an old brass bus horn and a pair of small antlers. I told him that I would love to meet Edward Snowden in Moscow. The other person who would be travelling with us was Daniel Ellsberg—the Snowden of the ’60s—the whistleblower who made public the Pentagon Papers during the war in Vietnam.
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