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...
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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...
304 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS popular movement has emerged questioning its purpose and meth- ods. As a result, a legitimate debate on what should constitute our domestic liberties—and potential limits to those when facing sig- nificant security concerns—has largely obfuscat...
138 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS officials to these three key questions “proved maddeningly diffi- cult.” He found that in mid-June NSA officials with whom he dealt were so “distraught at the massive security breach” that initially they refused to allow even CIA officers to pa...
…potential adversaries, but it also, at least not until the Snowden breach, managed to conceal these means from them. As long as these adversaries remained blind to the ways in which its communications were being intercepted, deciphered and read by the NSA, they could not take eff...
Fugitive | 109 resulted in an international incident but did not change the fact that Snowden was still in the custody of Russian authorities. Snowden came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone ina three- mile ra...
195 196 198 198 198 198 199 199 200 200 201 202 203 204 204 205 205 205 Notes to pages 199-214 | 323 CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA “There are many things”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” By 1914, the U.S....
CHAPTER 9 Escape Artist I’m not self-destructive. I don’t 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...
282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...
300 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS The conversation that Snowden began is necessary for another reason. The relentless growth of data-collection technology had come to endanger personal privacy. Smart phones in our pockets, GPS recorders in our cars, fitness bands on our wrists,...
72 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS course, the similarity of the phrasing might not have been entirely coincidental. Greenwald’s 2012 speech had been put on YouTube and widely circulated on the Internet just a few days before Snowden first wrote to him on December 1, 2012. Snowde...
183 Snowden’s trip to Hong Kong in May 2013 made the Chinese intelligence service, willy-nilly, a potential player in game. Hong Kong is a part of China, even if independently administrated, and, as such, China has full responsibility for its national security and foreign affair...
18 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS he had broken both legs. An army spokesman could not confirm that Snowden injured his legs or that he was in fact dropped from the program for medical reasons. Under his TrueHooHa alias, Snowden wrote that “they [the army] held on to me until t...
x | Contents CHAPTER 15 Did Snowden Act Alone? 146 carter 16 The Question of When 156 carter 17 The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing 168 CHAPTER 18 The Unheeded Warning 185 part THREE |THE GAME OF NATIONS CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA 195 carter 20 The NSA’s Back Door 207...
244 CHAPTER NINE The String-Puller 1, 10. ““Tt wasn’t that they put ...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013 “The Journalist to whom...” —The description of Snowden’s attemp...