t to self-immolate and erase myself from the pages of history. But if we don’t take chances, we can’t win.” --Snowden in Moscow The next evening Snowden drove to Honolulu International Airport. He left his leased car in the parking lot. He...
Poitras
Named in 85 passages across 34 documents.
Mentions of Poitras in the public Epstein records, with citations.
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Where Poitras appears
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of level 3 documents to an unsealed computer. He also took some less-sensitive documents from the administrative file (which contained mainly Level 1 documents) at the end of April. These late acquisitions included the now famous warrant fr...
credible feat, he gained access to 24 compartments containing the NSA’s most closely guarded secrets in a matter of a few weeks. Next, he had to find the lists he was seeking in a vast sea of data. He used for this task pre-programmed robot...
ing, he prepared his exit by writing Booz Allen that he needed a brief medical leave in May to undergo medical treatment for his putative epilepsy symptoms. Even though he had no planned any treatments, and, as far as is known did not suffe...
, he had agreed to deliver classified data to three journalists. On April 5, 2013, while still in the training facility in Maryland, he apparently sought to establish a paper trail for himself. He wrote a letter to NSA’s General Counsel Off...
on, agreed to hire him as a trainee-analyst (and it did not change that decision even after it found out about his subterfuge.). According to Admiral McConnell, Snowden never actually worked in the Booz Allen offices, which are housed in a...
len Vice Chairman Michael McConnell said with the benefit of hindsight. As a result of the theft, he appraised “an entire generation of intelligence was lost.” McConnell, a former NSA director before taking the job at Booz Allen, was in a p...
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...
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...
ve known from his anonymous emails that, aside from the whistle-blowing documents he promised them, he was in the process of stealing a large number of documents from the NSA’s National Threat Operations Center that concerned the NSA’s sour...
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...
… rousing ovation from the attendees. He was invited to speak at this award dinner for its east coast chapter. Poitras flew from Berlin to New York to see him. On April 19, 2013, she arranged to meet Greenwald at noon in the restaurant of th...
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...
…o both Greenwald’s book and his many blogs denouncing of US government surveillance. Aside from Greenwald and Poitras, Snowden sought an outlet inside the American establishment. So he had Poitras write Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer Prize wi...
…encies, 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, in any case, did not intend to conceal his iden...
…s aware of my intentions, and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions,” he said. Poitras must have found it flattering that a total stranger was willing to disclose to her in emails what he would not tell even h...
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...
…ndent could be “immediately implicated,” it meant that he was a person authorized to handle these secrets. So Poitras knew, as early as January 2013 that she was creating an encrypted channel for someone with access to NSA secrets and who w...
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...
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