Every indexed document

General Thomas Watlington. These positions afforded

it exploited him by getting him to steal

” any rogue civilian employee could bring down entire edifice of shared intelligence.

can go undetected for at least two weeks. If Snowden managed

revisit the dreamlines set in Definition and reset them as needed. The

and shepherding leather-back sea turtles in

about the investment banking industry and how to break in

high-demand subject and I knew I could make a better guide than anything else out

took a quick vacation to return to Japan in October 2007

I had lived in Japan for half a year in college and loved it—and long-term

so nothing in the book seemed outrageous to me—I just didn’t realize how easy

I had done some work online with graphics and web design and I had a

just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.

just imagine waking up five feet from the ground while bungee jumping as the cord

I was driving home at 3 A.M. one night after having pulled 4—5 all-nighters previously

it greatly expanded the pool of young sys-

became available to a hostile intelligence ser-

the records of over nineteen million employees

according to a National Security official at the Obama

one of the missing documents taken by Snowden provided what Ledgett