… U.S. eavesdropping.” . Britain also discovered that some of its secret operations had been compromised after Snowden went to Moscow. According to a 2015 story in the Sunday Times of London, British intelligence had determined that Britain’...
Snowden
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a said Snowden still had access to the documents. Clearly, someone had access. But whoever was behind it, the release of information about the alleged bugging Merkel’s phone resulted in badly fraying US relations with Germany in the midst o...
cal question about the fate of the NSA’s missing documents: Snowden had not destroyed the electronic files of NSA documents that he had not distributed to journalists. He still had them, when Kucherena had reviewed his files in Russia. Kuch...
…illance or replicate it." One issue for U.S. investigators at the NSA, CIA and Department of Defense was what Snowden did with the second set after his meetings with the journalists in Hong Kong. Did he take these documents with him to Russ...
…er received the stunning sum of one million dollars from Open Road Films, the distributor for Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” movie, for the rights to his not completed novel called “Time of the Octopus,” a story based on his story of Snowden’s st...
…n Russia. It had been, like previous press conferences with US defectors to Russia, carefully managed, First, Snowden arrived by limousine at the international transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport. He was seated at a table with Harrison....
… of Russia and an adviser to Putin, pointed out, “We can't send him back just because America demands it." So Snowden was consigned to the transit zone of the airport, which is a twilight zone neither inside nor outside of Russia, a netherw...
…reover, Putin himself had approved his exfiltration, which meant that, even without a valid passport or visa, Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Snowden’s choice was going to Russia or going to prison. The Russians cou...
ho ran the NSA during this period, concluded that Putin was playing a deep game with Snowden by “looking to capitalize on the fact that his [Snowden’s] actions are enormously disruptive and damaging to US interests.” This game, if Alexander...
…undation. He could be the subject of both an Oscar-winning documentary, the hero of the 2016 Hollywood movie “Snowden.” directed by Oliver Stone and a consultant to the 2015 season of the television series “Homeland.” He could also be nomin...
ncident but did not change the fact that Snowden was in the custody of Russia. Snowden himself came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone in a three-mile radius [of me] is go...
…r to call if they got arrested. When they finally boarded the flight at 12:45 pm, Harrison effectively became Snowden’s second “carer”—a job that would require her presence in Moscow for the next four months. Once the plane took off, Snowde...
ys before Snowden boarded Aeroflot flight SU213 to Moscow on June 23rd, the US had filed a criminal complaint against him. It had also alerted Hong Kong authorities and Interpol when it unsealed the complaint on June 21, 2013. And on June 2...
Obama Administration would learn after his arrival in Russia on June 23, 2013. But the only way that Snowden could not have known that fact on June 12th was by being in contact with Russian officials prior to his interview with Lam. Of cour...
…y other country in Latin America or elsewhere. So where was he headed? Whatever foreign government with which Snowden was dealing earlier in May presumably did not have an extradition treaty with the United States. Yet few other foreign gov...
…him from leaving the city. Even if he somehow got out, he would be an international fugitive. Tibbo counseled Snowden to seek redress in the Hong Kong courts. But Snowden had no intention of allowing himself to be arrested. Despite what he...
persecution on political grounds. After he told Snowden that it would entail a long court battle, Snowden asked him if he could avoid even being arrested. Tibbo explained that Hong Kong courts, which closely follow British law, would certai...
…e 16th, the U.S. government informed the Hong Kong authorities that it had filed a criminal complaint against Snowden and would be seeking his extradition. Since Hong Kong had a vigorously enforced extradition agreement with the United Stat...
… the knowledge of U.S. network operations against their people should be published.” So as late as June 14th, Snowden was still reading and assessing the files he had stolen from the NSA four weeks earlier. Poitras vetted the Lam interview....
close supervision, Lam was allowed to ask Snowden further questions about the NSA’s interception of communications in Hong Kong and China. He told her “I have had many opportunities to flee Hong Kong, but I would rather stay and fight the U...
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