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… trainee at the National Threat Operations Center, demonstrated its glaring vulnerability. Instead of guarding secrets, Snowden stole them. General Hayden described the Snowden breach as the “most serious hemorrhaging of American secrets in the history of American espionage. Amon...

…ially 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 not have obtained these passwords during his previous employment at Dell, because Dell...

… the game by saying that he had access to NSA’s sources in China. 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 p...

…f oversight, each level of re- sponsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their re- sponsibility. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 Wi SNOWDEN in Hong Kong was attempting to reel in the journalists, Lindsay Mills returned to Honolulu from her “island-hopping” trip to f...

…ponsorship suggests that the Russian government saw potential value in the document-gathering activities of WikiLeaks. Snowden telephoned Assange at his refuge at the Ecuador embassy on June 10, 2013. According to Assange, Snowden needed help for his exit plan. He wanted Assange...

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...

… Cheltenham, England for months on end to determine if which parts could be still salvaged from what had been until the Snowden breach the most powerful communications intelligence system in the world. Adding insult to injury, Snowden, speaking from his new perch in Moscow, told...

Ld | HOW 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 inte...

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...

… 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 “Secret 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....

… munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded regional base in Oahu, Hawaii. The suspect was Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old civil- ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal...

20 warrant and the PRISM slides, few of the other documents that Snowden had given Poitras and Greenwald for publication had little to do with either domestic surveillance or the infringements on the privacy of Americans. By the Lawfare Institute’s count, 32 of Snowden’s leaks t...

…matters. This suggests that there is a risk in accepting statements made by the intelligence chiefs at face value. But Snowden also has a credibility problem. He has told numerous untruths, including some calculated to help him insinuate himself into the key positions from which...

113 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 going to get hammered,” he later explained to a reported from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on Nov...