Where Snowden appears
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…NSA who might be interested in attending an anti-NSA surveillance presentation. Sandvik not only agreed to be Snowden’s co-presenter but made the Oahu CryptoParty a Tor-sponsored event. Sandvik flew to Honolulu on December 6, 2012. It was a...
of government officials because, as The Nation explained, Snowden speaks “truth to power.” Such a formulation of distrust allows those who accept it to dismiss all assertions of government officials representing power who contradict Snowden...
…breach. Inglis, who headed operations for the NSA, told him “the news was not good.” Among the data copied by Snowden were a large number of CIA secrets. By the time the CIA learned that its secrets had been compromised, Snowden was headed...
146 Snowden’s supporters, to be sure, disputed this view. If only as an act of faith in Snowden’s personal integrity, they continued to believe his avowal to Senator Humphrey that he had acted to protect U.S. secrets by shielding them from...
… that can thwart ter- rorist attacks against subways, theaters, and other civilian targets. We have seen that Snowden also deprived the NSA of much of the effectiveness of its PRISM program by revealing it, through the arti- cles published...
…bama and his national security team an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this advantage in 2013 by revealing this technology (which was published in The New York Times and...
… her to film a private computer exchange between him and Mills (who was in Honolulu). That day Mills informed Snowden that two government investiga- tors had come to their home in Hawaii, asking her about Snowden’s whereabouts. When he had...
…I knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.” His initial confusion was understandable. Snowden, it will be recalled, had falsely identified himself to them in an e-mail as a senior mem- ber of the intelligence communi...
… Kong. So, on June 15, she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, Snowden, organizing his own exit from Hong Kong, placed a call to Julian Assange. | | Epst_978045149...
187 The U.Ss also had the ability to track Snowden’s movements via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. This tracking could all be done by the NSA. What the U.S. lacked was any practical means to capture...
…s to those when facing sig- nificant security concerns—has largely obfuscated in this mind-set the reality of Snowden’s weakening, durably and structurally, the critical ability of the United States and its allies to address their mounting...
…ssport while he was already on a plane to Moscow on the afternoon of June 23. None of these journalists asked Snowden what the basis for his oft- repeated allegation was. If they had, they would have discovered that he had no independent ba...
…isposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. A precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveillance of American intelligence in Hong Kong. Instead, for her first 13 days i...
…ay have reflected the acquiescence of the Hong Kong authorities to the reported request of China to be rid of Snowden by June 23rd. All we know for certain is that Hong Kong airport police did not stop Snowden. He was allowed on the Aeroflo...
her international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States.” Rather than “exiling” Snowden, the government acted to facilitate his return home. With his passport, he could have flown home from either Hong Kong or M...
…y, and the former NSA employee Thomas Drake, could attract interest by U.S. or foreign intelligence services. Snowden asked Poitras to take out a new enciphering key to use exclusively for her liaison with him. It provided them both with an...
…ong before he became a suspect. If they had immediately flown to Hong Kong that May, it still might have left Snowden an escape window. As Snowden found out, when dealing with journalists, things do not always go as planned. Greenwald, alth...
152 If Snowden could cause such massive damage, so could other civilian trainees at the NSA. Someone in the chain of command had to take responsibility, General Alexander tendered his resignation on June 30", 2013. “ I’m the director, “he s...
… grandson’s employment. The CIA, however, has not disclosed any information about who, if anyone, recommended Snowden. All that is known is that in 2006 the CIA waived its minimum requirements for him. Later Snowden pointed out from Moscow...
…ry vulnerability he pointed out to steal NSA documents at Dell. In September 2009, still on the Dell payroll, Snowden made a ten- day trip to India. He later said he was on an official visit “working at the US embassy.” Hotel records show t...
