Every indexed document

it was not beyond the ability of the world-class cyber services to crack it.

as will be recalled. He also bragged about operating

his true name and address in Hawaii. Sandvik had no reason not to

Greenwald told his lover David Miranda about the source in

Poitras could hardly rely on these five confidants not to tell her (and Snowden’s) to

“Abraham Lincoln joked. “It’s the people I tell it that can’t.” In the

the ACLU lawyer; Barton Gellman; and Glenn Greenwald. “It is not

the more money it receives from the government

000 investigations in order to get more quickly paid for them. Since the more

USIS closed cases and cleared applicants without completing an

it proved to be a barrier to extended investigations of

might have learned this about Snowden if it had done his background

there was a ""derog” in his file that might

when it did the background check on Snowden in 2011

USIS lacked the investigative clout to gain entry to other the CIA and other

USIS was backed by a hedge-fund determined to make money by systematically cutting the

a rapidly-expanding investment firm founded only four

such a recruit would provide another cog in its profit

and he had been detected being untruthful about his degree in computer

its operating margin on these contracts had doubled. As it turned out