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151 demonstrated the NSA had few, if any, fail-safe defenses against a would-be leakers of communication intelligence. In the new domain of cyber warfare, conventional defensive rules do not apply. “There are no rivers or hills up here. It’s all flat. All advantage goes to the a...

…that any alternative that fits the relevant facts, no matter how implausible it may initially seem to be, is not neglected. One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these scenarios is how Snowden got the passwords to up to twenty-four of these vaults. He could...

…hina. How could they resist such a prize? As confidant as Snowden may have been that he was in control, the CIA believed that confidence was misinformed. CIA Deputy Director Morell said, after reviewing the case on a panel appointed by President Obama: “Snowden thinks he is sma...

CHAPTER 10 Whistle-blower They elected me. The overseers ... The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of re- sponsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their re- sponsibility. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 Wi SNOWDEN in...

100 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In November 2010, however, he ran into a legal problem in Sweden. A judge in Stockholm ordered his detention on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. He denied the charges but was arrested in London on a European arrest...

…he NSA can be found in James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982, pp. 1-4 “the NSA learned ...”—Author Interview with General Keith Alexander “12 minute video ...”——This extraordinary video can be seen at http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/201...

…est that the NSA could do now was damage control while its adversaries took full advantage of the setback. Several hundred US and British intelligence officers worked around the clock in Washington DC, Fort Meade, Maryland and Cheltenham, England for months on end to determine if...

…W AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS whole story. Of far more importance is the quality of some of the data that Snowden had copied. Just a single one of these documents could cripple not just the NSA but America’s entire multibillion- dollar apparatus for intercepting foreign intelligenc...

28 Intelligence Agency that the military files compromised by Snowden included documents bearing on military plans and weapons systems; foreign government’s intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources, or methods or cryptology; Scientific and te...

…TY-FIVE The Vanishing Act 1. . “The talk about Russia...”--“The NSA was actually...”--James Bamford and Tim De Chant, “Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare, Nova, PBS. January 8, 2015 2. 8. “Izvestia, “a special operation...”— Andrei Gridasov, Igor Yavlyansky and Mary Gorkovskaya “S...

246 10, 2014 http:/Awww.thenation.com/article/edward-snowden-speaks- sneak-peek-exclusive-interview/ > 20. “You have been ‘selected’...”-- Snowden Emails to Poitras. op. cit. 21. “Binney had been a...” —Frontline Interview, “William Binney,” PBS. December 13, 3013, //www.pbs....

…rdinary lengths to keep them secret. Draconian laws protect this secrecy. In the first week of June 2013, the NSA learned that there had been a massive breach. Thousands of secret files bearing on com- munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded regional base...

…ements on the privacy of Americans. By the Lawfare Institute’s count, 32 of Snowden’s leaks to these journalists concerned the NSA’s overseas sources and method, nine identified overseas locations of the NSA’s intelligence bases, 25 of them revealed the identities of foreign offi...

130 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS per answered that the NSA did not knowingly “collect any type of data” on millions of Americans. Clapper’s answer was clearly untrue, but it did not mislead Senator Wyden or any other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Clapper had tr...

…including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone in a three-mile radius [of me] is going to get hammered,” he later explained to a reported from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on November 3, 2013, Harrison moved to Berlin, where she set up an or...