Where Snowden appears
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190 Chronology 3 Snowden in Russia 2013 June 23 Snowden arrives from Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International Airport on Aeroflot flight SU213 at 5:15 PM local time. Sarah Harrison arrives from Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International Airport...
…dress the important mystery of how many thousands of state secrets were taken from the United States. How did Snowden breach the supposedly formidable defenses of the NSA? Did he have any assistance? How did he escape to Moscow? And what wa...
174 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS SHEVARDNADZE: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thin...
… is known, did not offer him sanctuary. According to one U.S diplomat, it may have already obtained copies of Snowden’s NSA files, and did not want the problem of having Snowden defect to Beijing. In any case, if it had not already acquired...
w he intended to use Poitras' film-making skills. He told her: “My personal desire is that you paint the target directly on my back.” He chose to make himself the on-camera star of a 20-hour long reality show. This sensational footage would...
…. “You should remain anonymous; the stories are just as good without you.” However, anonymity was not part of Snowden’s long game. The reason he gave Greenwald in Hong Kong for going public in this way was to avoid any suspicion falling on...
…ish a Moscow-based story revealing British and American communications intelligence secrets, The third choice Snowden made, and the choice that most effectively defined him to the public, was to reveal himself as the man behind the leak in...
the hotel room and from seizing him. Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief, told me that Snowden was correct in his assessment of that Hong Kong advantage. Drumheller said that Hong Kong was “home court” for the Chinese intelligence...
source, Brazil also would have been a more certain place to meet Greenwald. If some consideration by Snowden precluded Brazil as a destination, Snowden could have also gone to Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Iceland, or Venezuela, which are also co...
…o, his choice to widen his access was also a choice to empower himself. The second choice of consequence that Snowden made was to make Hong Kong his first stop. He had many other options. He could have remained in America, as almost all pre...
…versary computers that were not hooked into a network. “It’s no secret that we hack China very aggressively,” Snowden later said from Moscow. He had a planned target: getting the lists of the enemy computers that the NSA hacked into. He als...
…he more valuable secrets of services is called an “expanding penetration.” It is not possible to believe that Snowden did not know the damage that the highly-sensitive documents he was taking from the NSA and its allies. Even if they did no...
onnaissance Office and other intelligence services. Snowden could not have considered the budget illegitimate, since is duly approved by both houses of Congress and the President. Nor could he objected to its secrecy since he himself had sw...
…uested by not only the NSA, but the CIA, DIA, National Reconnaissance Office and other intelligence services. Snowden could not have considered the budget illegitimate, since is duly approved by both houses of Congress and the President. No...
…every three months to Verizon. In addition, as the NSA’s damage assessment established, before switching jobs Snowden had already taken most of the documents pertaining to the NSA’s domestic operations that he could have supplied to Poitras...
added, “His legal defense is fairly expensive and Snowden is running out of money.” I was intrigued by this parting remark. Snowden, as far as I knew, didn’t need a legal defense because he was not charged with a crime in Russia and the Uni...
…th him in Russia, Kucherena had said “certainly.” Was this exchange accurate? “It was accurate,” he answered. Snowden himself had said in Hong Kong that he had only given journalists some of the state secrets he had stolen and that he deeme...
…event, for an American citizen to defect to Russia. Wearing an open-neck blue shirt and badly-creased jacket, Snowden read a prepared statement that accused the United States government of violating the universal declaration of human rights...
thcoming movie “Snowden.” in which he plays Snowden’s lawyer in Moscow. “I was impressed by how few takes he needed to shoot my scene,” he answered. “How did you come to be Snowden’s lawyer?” I asked. “Snowden picked me from a roster of 15...
dinner party than an interview about Snowden. As Kucherena did not speak English, I brought Zamir along to translate for the conversation, but Valentina also spoke very good English. She apologized for the delay in responding to my requests...
