Snowden had access mainly to Level 1 and Level 2 data (which he could, and did, download from shared sites on the NSA Net.) These lower level documents had whistle-blowing potential since they concerned NSA operations in the US. They did no...
Edward Snowden
Named in 141 passages across 65 documents.
Mentions of Edward Snowden in the public Epstein records, with citations.
Being named in these documents is not an accusation or evidence of wrongdoing. This page reflects only what the public records literally contain, with citations to the original sources.
Where Edward Snowden appears
141 total
has developed a well-organized system for stratifying its data so that obtaining critical secrets would require a rogue employee to burrow into its heavily protected inner sanctum. As part of this system, the NSA divides its data into diffe...
…e Inner Sanctum “They think there’s a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically.” —Edward Snowden in Moscow The nightmare of the NSA is a penetration. As the CIA, FBI and NSA found out in the 1990s, No intelligenc...
onboard the project, Poitras revealed to Greenwald that Citizen 4 would deliver an entire trove of secret documents to them in six to eight weeks. According to this timetable, the Greenwald’s scoop, and the “shock” Citizen 4 promised, would...
sed with the “sincerity” of the anonymous correspondent. When Poitras showed Greenwald Citizen 4’s mission statement in which he said his motive was to end the US “surveillance state.” Greenwald was further impressed with the source. After...
and, since Greenwald lived in Brazil, she still had not found an opportunity for a face-to-face meeting with him. That opportunity arose in mid-April 2013. Greenwald had flown to New York to give the lead speech at an event in Yonkers, N.Y....
ichard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Poitras, as the go-between for Snowden, immediately contacted Gellman. She already knew him from meetings they both attended at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. After telling him she was involved in a...
uccessfully attempted to reach out to Greenwald before he had contacted her.) His continued interest in Greenwald was understandable. Aside from Greenwald’s opposition to what he called the “Surveillance State,” he was a gateway to the Guar...
surveillance, he could not be sure that other agencies, such as the Russian and Chinese intelligence services, were not be monitoring his communications with Poitras. It was, however, a chance Snowden evidently was willing to take. Snowden,...
20,” he wrote her. It was an 18-page directive that Obama had signed four months earlier in October 2012. Snowden was offering to reveal to her the up-to-date evidence of a surveillance state in America presided over by the President himsel...
not have done so without violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, US anti-espionage statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists that he was not a law breaker. But her new source, Snowden, was willing to do what Binney...
At this point, she knew she was entering into a dangerous liaison with an unknown party in pursuit of NSA secrets. To elude this “adversary,” Snowden stressed to her that she would have to adopt a conspiratorial set of mind. “If the device...
erational security,” as Greenwald would call the precautions that she took, dove-tailed with Snowden’s growing conviction that universal encryption was necessary to defeat the surveillance state. It also made her the perfect channel for Sno...
at the ambush site led Army intelligence officers to suspect (without any evidence) that she might have been tipped off by the insurgents. She firmly denied the charge and the government never substantiated it. Even so, because of this inci...
d that the anonymous person would use this encrypted channel to send her highly-sensitive material. On January 23, 2013 Snowden wrote Poitras under yet another alias. This time he called himself “Citizen Four.” He wrote: “At this stage I ca...
…iam Binney and Thomas Drake. It was in the midst of this project when she received the email from Anon108 aka Edward Snowden. He next asked Poitras her take out a new enciphering key to use exclusively for her liaison with him. It provided...
a presentation at the Whitney Museum in New York with Binney and Appelbaum. She became such a leading activist against the NSA by December 2012 that Appelbaum, after lauding her work, interspersed clips from her short film in his keynote ad...
association with him. They both were founding board members of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Greenwald had also written about her extensively. For example, he wrote an entire blog about her confrontation with the US government and he...
cords virtually everything even the most law-abiding citizens do.” That same week Snowden invited Runa Sandvik to co-host his crypto party. One problem for Snowden was reaching out to Greenwald was Greenwald's lack of any encryption for his...
ccording to Assange, “WikiLeaks had been cut off from more than 90 percent of its finances.” So the Freedom of the Press Foundation came to its rescue. John Perry Barlow, one of the song writers for the Grateful Dead band, was one of its ch...
Also named alongside
Want context across all of these passages at once?
Ask the documents about Edward Snowden