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…tial limits to those when facing sig- nificant security concerns—has largely obfuscated in this mind-set the reality of Snowden’s weakening, durably and structurally, the critical ability of the United States and its allies to address their mounting external security challenges....

…me of the breach. Inglis, who headed operations for the NSA, told him “the news was not good.” Among the data copied by Snowden were a large number of CIA secrets. By the time the CIA learned that its secrets had been compromised, Snowden was headed to Russia. The investigation...

…ptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit Internet traffic.” It was no secret, even before Snowden, that the NSA was engaged with monitoring the Internet. Through all this tumult the heart of the NSA’s activity remained its 5,000 acre base at Fort Ge...

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...

… 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. Army: National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: The Black Ch...

… 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...

… him sanctuary. According to one U.S. diplomat cited by The New York Times, China might have already obtained copies of Snowden’s NSA files and did not want the problem of having Snowden defect to Beijing. In any case, if it had not already acquired the files, it could assume it...

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,...

…ncidental. 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. Snowden identified himself as a privacy advocate, which was also how Greenwald often identi- fied himself in his...

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...

… little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty ... you can come to justify it. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 DWARD JOSEPH SNOWDEN was born on June 21, 1983, in Eliza- beth City, North Carolina. His parents were Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy”...

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...

…the NSA experts who examined the documents that he had stolen were “totally incapable.” In any case, in February 2009, Snowden not only had a career- damaging “derog” in his file but faced an internal investigation of his suspicious computer activities. According to Drumheller,...