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…Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama.” Along with it was the FISA order. The PRISM story broke hours later in The Washington Post. Written by Gellman and Poitras, it claimed that the NSA and the FBI w...

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...

150 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS exclusive alternatives. The point is to assure 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 scenar...

…rity staffs of hotels. Snowden’s mysterious “carer” would not be immune from detection by that network. Russia, China’s longtime intelligence ally, would not even need to go to such lengths since, as Putin gloatingly confirmed, he contacted its diplomats in Hong Kong. The Russian...

…way on a business trip and indicated that, at least tem- porarily, their eight-year relationship was on hold. “T feel alone, lost, overwhelmed, and desperate for a reprieve from the bipolar nature of my current situation,” she wrote in her journal on June 2 (which would be June...

…is detention on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. He denied the charges but was arrested in London on a European arrest warrant. In December, he was released on a $312,700 bail deposit (supplied by his supporters) and confined to Ellingham Hall in Norf...

226 END NOTES Prologue On The Trail of Snowden “No Such Agency’—The best description of the birth of the 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...

188 reset button in this game. The best 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, Engl...

…lar apparatus for intercepting foreign intelligence. The previously cited road map, which was thirty-one thousand pages long, listed critical gaps in U.S. coverage of China, Russia, and other adversaries, including those cited by President Obama’s national security team. It was n...

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...

…e Interview,” Zhe Nation, (website), October 10, 2014 4. “Discussed the danger with Assange ...”-- Assange interview, (London) Sunday Times. Giles Whittell, “Julian Assange unmasked.” Times Magazine, August 29, 2015. 5. “Everyone was screaming ‘Snowden’...”—Author’s interview w...

Fittuy Ricu TERSON wing depressed and withdrawn of America’s most famous lawyers, and before lon h lessly, her parents watched her | celebrity lawyer— Ken Starr, the former solicitor ner is a . i 3 a wed the end of their rope, they had had Bill Clinton impeached for perjury...

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....

4 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS their secret messages, the NSA goes to extraordinary 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...

…hat the NSA had been using or researching. In addition, a considerable number of the published documents did not even belong to the NSA but were copies of reports sent to the NSA by its allies, including the British, Australian, Canadian, French, Norwegian and Israeli intelligenc...