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… want to self-immolate and erase myself from the pages of history. But if we don’t take chances, we can’t win. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 TT" NEXT EVENING, May 18, Snowden drove to Honolulu Inter- national Airport. He left his leased car in the parking lot. He took with him...

L2 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tery I was going to solve on this first trip to Hong Kong. I needed to know more about his activities before he got there. After all, Snowden was not, as he himself pointed out from Moscow, an “angel descend- ing from the heavens.” He had been w...

…ractors don’t clear employees. The government does.”-- Admiral Michael McConnell, Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton Snowden, age 26, returned from Europe and moved into his mother’s condo. He was not only unemployed now, having resigned the CIA without qualifying for any bene...

60 after his CIA security clearance ran out, he applied to renew it. A new clearance required a new background check and filling out (again) the government’s 127-page standard form 86. Since 1996, background investigations for the NSA, like much of the computer work at the NSA,...

… any other private company because of government privacy regulations. Even though the CIA had “security concerns” about Snowden, it could not convey them to either Dell or the NSA without violating the privacy rules. “So the guy with whom the CIA had concerns left © the Agency a...

36 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS investigation. In 2006, the government learned these background checks were often prematurely ended. In Snowden’s case, because the CIA did not share its files with a private concern, USIS did not have access to Snowden’s CIA files, and it there...

…T [signals intelligence] system works.” Just as she had been “chosen” by her work to act as his conduit, accord- ing to Snowden, she had been chosen by the NSA as a target because of her work. The idea of her being “selected” by an invisible signals intelligence agency, the NSA,...

96 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Greenwald flew back to Brazil that day. Soon afterward, he would resign from The Guardian. In February 2014, he became the co- founding editor of The Intercept, an online publication dedicated to investigative journalism, which was backed by the...

…mehow got out, he would be an international fugitive. Tibbo counseled Snowden to seek redress in the Hong Kong courts. Snowden, though, had no intention of allowing himself to be ® arrested, Despite what he had told Lana Lam only one week earlier, © at least for publication, ab...

…to exaggerate the ® loss because his company, Booz Allen Hamilton, was partly respon- © sible for the damage. It hired Snowden, as will be recalled, even after its vetters had detected an untruthful statement in his application. McConnell said, “This will have impact on our abil...

(21 possible that Snowden smuggled in a key logger in his backpack, it could not be operated wirelessly inside the Center because, like all other NSA facilities, the computers had been insulated to lock-out wireless transmission. This precaution was taken to guard against an EMP...

264 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS ton, D.C., to Austria so that its specialists could debrief him on the secrets he held in his head, it would have an even greater interest in exfiltrating Snowden from Hong Kong to get, aside from his docu- ments, whatever secrets he held in hi...

go | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS put her. But because they were exchanging private text messages by then, he would not have needed to consult her public journal. Snowden was certainly aware that he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was...

The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 293 the call but not the name of the caller. This anonymous data was archived into a huge database. The idea was that when any foreigner on the FBI’s watch list of terrorists called any number in the United States, the FBI could trace that per...

…nowden had predicted. © Snowden’s identity had not been revealed in either the Guardian ® or the Post story on June 6. Snowden, however, insisted on outing himself. He explained to Greenwald that he needed to “define him- self” before the U.S. government “demonized” him as a spy...