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…g Kong on the condition that he take with him a Guardian staffer in whom she had confidence. He was Scottish-born Ewen MacAskill, a 61-year old veteran journalist who had been the Washington bureau chief for the Guardian. His assignment was to evaluate the mystery source in Hong...

…tizenfour, which would be commercially © released in October 2014 and win an Academy Award for her. The next day, Ewen MacAskill, whom Poitras had not wanted Greenwald to bring to the initial meeting, joined Poitras and Green- wald in Snowden’s room. Snowden insisted that MacAsk...

…12 13 “The whole key is...”-- Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow. “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,” Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview- transcr...

…s...”—Author’s interview with Tyler Drumheller . “Snowden told the editor...”-- I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,” Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http:/;Awww.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp- edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview-trans...

…th Snowden. Even after he had revealed his true identity to Poitras and Greenwald on June 2™ 2013, Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill offered him the option of remaining an unnamed source for the stories. He said, as he later told Vanity Fair. “You should remain anonymous; the storie...

…y,’ —Greenwald, No Place to Hide. op cit. p. 43 7. “That whole period was...”-- “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview-transcr...

… the United States government in the courts.” That bit of braggadocio would not be proven out. Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill in their reporting did not concern themselves with any of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret documents in the history of the United Stat...

…13. 102 Tibbo wanted Snowden to remain: Tibbo, interview with author. 103 “The purpose of my mission”: Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” CHAPTER 12 Fugitive 104 “If lend up in chains”: Snowden video on the Guardian site, June 17, 2013, www theguardian.com/world/video/2014/...

…ty, interview with author. “his first priority”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 43. “That whole period”: Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” He e-mailed Gellman: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’” Gellman could not make: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 51-52. more pressure on Gellman:...

…nternet billion- aire Pierre Omidyar. Poitras remained in Hong Kong, where she moved, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. The Guardian paid the bill. Her next t...

…d, “Edward Snowden.” “Tf I were providing information”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity,...

…ntractor Hired Snowden Despite Concerns About Resume Discrepancies.” 76 “playing with fire”: Spencer Ackerman and Ewen MacAskill, “Snowden Calls ® for Whistleblower After Claims by New Pentagon Source,” Guardian, May 22, ® 2016. 76 establish a paper trail: Director of National...

…ong Kong on the con- dition that he take with him a Guardian staffer in whom she had confidence, the Scottish-born Ewen MacAskill, a sixty-one-year-old veteran journalist who had been the Washington bureau chief for The Guardian. His assignment was to evaluate the bona fides of t...

…uld also apply to the journalists Snowden had dealt with in Hong Kong. If Snowden had given Poitras, Greenwald, Lam, or MacAskill the Merkel document, or even told them about it in their interviews with him in Hong Kong, The Guardian would have certainly rushed out such a scoop....

…PTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon 1. “What I came to feel...” —Snowden quoted in “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview-transcr...