… Tower, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. Her next task was to set up what was to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12th. The journalist chosen was Lana Lam, a young Australian rep...
Snowden
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not necessarily go as planned. On the morning of June 10th, 2013, Snowden’s escape plan apparently ran into a problem. Robert Tibbo and Jonathan Mann, the lawyers who, along with Albert Ho, had been retained for Snowden by an unidentified p...
…deo, Greenwald told him that by going public in this way he was saying “fuck you” to the American government. Snowden replied, “I want to identify myself as the person behind these disclosures.” On June 9th, the video was posted on the Guar...
…tories by the Guardian and Washington Post provided the explosive “shock,” at least in the global media, that Snowden had predicted. Snowden’s identity had not been revealed in either the Guardian or Washington Post stories on June 5th. Sno...
…e authority to soy on the President of the United States, she insisted. Such career enhancements suggest that Snowden altered factual reality when it suits his purpose with journalists. Even though Snowden had greatly exaggerated the positi...
…r 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 his cell phone in the mini-bar refrigerator. Not wi...
…itted her to film a private computer exchange between him and Mills (who was in Honolulu.) Mills now informed Snowden that two government investigators had come to their home in Hawaii. Mills reported that they were asking her about Snowden...
out 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 email as a senior member of the intelligence community. Snowden led Greenwald a...
Snowden’s instructions were themselves an exercise in control. Snowden had written them: “On timing, regarding meeting up in Hong Kong, the first rendezvous attempt will be at 10 A.M. local time. We will meet in the hallway outside of the r...
nolulu from her “island-hopping” trip, she found Snowden was still away and the rented house partially flooded from a leak. The brief note Snowden left her indicated that her eight year relationship with Snowden had, at least temporarily, b...
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...
… build a personal website for him. Writing Lee from Hong Kong under both his alias Anon108 and his real name, Snowden said that he planned to post on it his “anti-surveillance manifesto.” He would also use it to post “a global petition agai...
…hematician who had maimed or killed 23 people with anonymous mail bombs between 1978 and 1995. Like Citizen 4/Snowden, Kaczynski had demanded that newspapers publish his personal manifesto. She explained to Greenwald, “It is going to sound...
…urnalists involved in the news event. Poitras also asked the hacktavist Jacob Appelbaum to help her interview Snowden about the NSA’s operations. She later said that she needed someone with technical expertise in government surveillance to...
…“inflict upon the world a system of secret, pervasive surveillance from which there is no refuge.” Meanwhile, Snowden told Poitras, he was sending her a number of NSA documents including a recent FISA warrant. It had been issued less than a...
…persuade Greenwald to come to Hong Kong. At this point, he took matters in to his own hands. On May 25, 2013, Snowden somewhat aggressively emailed Greenwald “You recently had to decline short-term travel to meet with me.” He added pointedl...
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...
…ernment rules, data carrying these labels could not be removed from a government-approved “SCI facility.” Yet Snowden, who brought them with him into this semi-autonomous zone in China, intended to break these rules. At this venue, Snowden...
…ef “We begin by coveting what we see every day” —Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs In Hawaii in 2012, Snowden was living a very comfortable life. He was earning from Dell just over $120,000 a year. His housing allowance from Dell pa...
on-line posts in 2010, Snowden expressed loathing for the assistance that corporate America was providing the intelligence community. “It really concerns me how little this sort of corporate behavior bothers those outside of technology circ...
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