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…or of national intelligence. Nor did Snowden’s breach begin with his handing over classified documents to the Guardian reporters in Hong Kong in June 2013 or, for that matter, in the eleven days prior to his meeting with journal- ists. He h...
…intelligence community would … see sources go dark that were previously productive, he told the editor of the Guardian in Moscow. In short, he advertised possessing precisely the priceless data that the Russian intelligence services had bee...
… “I want to identify myself as the person behind these disclosures.” On June 9th, the video was posted on the Guardian website with the Freedom of the Press Foundation getting an on-screen credit. “My name is Ed Snowden,” the extraordinary...
…eased in October 2014 and win an Academy Award for her. The next day, Wednesday June 4th, Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian editor, joined Poitras and Greenwald in Snowden’s room. Snowden insisted that he also go through the ritual of stowing hi...
fully evaluated every single document I disclosed,” Snowden explained to the Guardian journalists in early June 2013. The documents in this first cache were selected to serve what he termed the “public interest.” In the hands of journalists...
… to miss publishing it. She authorized Greenwald’s trip to Hong Kong on the condition that he take with him a Guardian staffer in whom she had confidence. He was Scottish-born Ewen MacAskill, a 61-year old veteran journalist who had been th...
for him in Hong Kong, Greenwald still had to overcome a final hurdle at the Guardian. He needed to get a green light to go to Hong Kong from Janine Gibson, the editor of the Guardian website, who was based in New York. Under Gibson’s leader...
…ng away while Snowden was waiting for him in Hong Kong, Greenwald still had to overcome a final hurdle at the Guardian. He needed to get a green light to go to Hong Kong from Janine Gibson, the editor of the Guardian website, who was based...
…that FISA warrant to serve as the basis of Greenwald’s scoop. It was perfect whistle-blowing material for the Guardian because it ordered Verizon to turn over all its billing records for 90 days to the NSA. It was as close to a smoking gun...
…ald wanted the scoop, he had to follow Snowden’s instructions, which included dividing the scoops between the Guardian and the Washington Post. According to his plan, Gellman would break the PRISM story in the Washington Post and Greenwald...
use embarrassment for the NSA. Snowden proposed that Gellman join him in Hong Kong. In attempting to persuade him of the urgency of the trip, he wrote him that he had reason to believe that “omniscient State powers” imperiled “our freedom a...
… was relatively safe. “That whole period was very carefully planned and orchestrated,” Snowden later told the Guardian in Moscow. Here, for the first time, Snowden communicated directly with first Gellman and then Greenwald. He emailed Gell...
… whom he wrote On December 1, 2012, was Glenn Greenwald, the previously-mentioned Rio-based columnist for the Guardian. Greenwald had not always been an activist journalist. Up until 2004, Greenwald was a litigation lawyer at the elite New...
…ecial Forces of the US Army. It was almost certainly reinforced by his ouster from the CIA. He later told the Guardian that he was disillusioned as early as 2007 when he learned about the CIA’s methods in compromising Swiss citizens. He als...
…US government conducted its intelligence. He found NSA surveillance particularly worrisome, later telling the Guardian: "They [the NSA] are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them." He claim...
…unstoppable “Wolfking Awesomefox” may have also suffered. According to the narrative he later supplied to the Guardian, he had become deeply concerned about the immoral way in which the CIA conducted its intelligence operations in Switzerla...
…e NSA to obtain data collected by private phone and Internet companies. It the initial story published in the Guardian on June 5, 2013, Snowden disclosed one such FISA warrant to support his charge. It was issued by Judge Roger Vinson of th...
…ahu, Hawaii. He revealed in a calm, unemotional voice that he had been the source for the stories in both the Guardian and the Washington Post. He said that he had supplied the secret, classified documents that the two newspapers had used i...
…self safe enough to take another irrevocable step in his defection. He sent journalist Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian a “welcome package,” as he called it, of 20 top-secret NSA documents on May 25, 2013. He had now not only downloaded docu...
…Rory because we are still weak on international communication. Some old negative stuff keeps coming up in the Guardian newspaper in England. But most of the international media is not paying much attention to Maldives right now. | have aske...
