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demonstrated the NSA had few, if any, fail-safe defenses against a would-be leakers of
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020303.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…en them when it is to their mutual advantage, it had to be assumed that if either country had acquired the secrets from Snowden, they would be shared between them altering the balance of power between the communication intelligence services of the US and its adversaries. Followi...

exclusive alternatives. The point is to assure that any alternative that
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019638.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...

adversary services, which also had the home court advantage, from stepping in. He also gave
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020337.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

185 adversary services, which also had the home court advantage, from stepping in. He also gave adversaries an ample, if not wholly irresistible reason, to enter the game by saying that he had access to NSA’s sources in China. How could they resist such a prize? As confidant a...

In November 2010, however, he ran into a legal problem in
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019588.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

100 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In November 2010, however, he ran into a legal problem in Sweden. A judge in Stockholm ordered his detention on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. He denied the charges but was arrested in London on a European arrest...

reset button in this game. The best that the NSA could do now was damage control while its
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020340.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…n 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 applauding audience that the entire purpose of the U.S. exercise, including deliberately “trapping” him in...

whole story. Of far more importance is the quality of some of the
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019660.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...

Intelligence Agency that the military files compromised by Snowden included documents bearing
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020180.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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 NSA’s Back Door
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020419.txt Jan 8, 2015 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

267 CHAPTER TWENTY The NSA’s Back Door 1. 11. | eA . “You have private for-profit ...”--James Bamford and Tim De Chant, “Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare.” PBS Nova, January 8 2015 “Ames had been a...”—See Aldrich Ames, Appendix A “All their classified information...”—Ano...

The Whistle-Blower Who Became an Espionage Source
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020432.txt Jul 18, 2014 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

280 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 3. 6. The Whistle-Blower Who Became an Espionage Source “The government’s investigation failed...” Bamford. Wired. Op.cit “Tf I were providing...”-- “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,” Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. h...

The Consequences for the War on Terror
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020433.txt Nov 19, 2015 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

281 CHAPTER THIRTY The Consequences for the War on Terror 1. “Because of a number of...”--Amy Davidson, “Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks,” The New Yorker, November 19, 2015 2. “None of the communications...”-- David Gauthier- Villars, “Paris Attacks Show Crac...

16. “The mission’s already accomplished...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020431.txt Dec 13, 2013 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Zl? 16. “The mission’s already accomplished...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished, “ Washington Post, December 13, 2013 17. “His legal representative in Moscow...”-- Sophie Shevardnadze, “Snowden believes he did...

14.”Overcome a final hurdle...”-- Greenwald. No Place to Hide. op.cit. p16-18
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020401.txt Oct 28, 2014 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

249 14.”Overcome a final hurdle...”-- Greenwald. No Place to Hide. op.cit. p16-18 15. “Miss publishing it...” —The description of the Guardian’s reaction to Greenwald’s offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Hardy, a Guardian reporter commissioned by the Guardian editor to write...

Crossing the Rubicon
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019532.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…topped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 S OON AFTER Snowden failed to get an SES job at the NSA in Sep- tember 2012, he intensified his rogue activities. As we've seen, part of...

warrant and the PRISM slides, few of the other documents that Snowden had given Poitras and
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020172.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nning in 2013, John Kiriakou in 2013, Donald Sachtleben in 2013, Stephen Kim in 2014 and Jeffrey Sterling in 2014. Like Snowden, they claimed to be whistle-blowers informing the public of abuses of the government. But since they disclosed classified documents, they were dealt wit...

per answered that the NSA did not knowingly “collect any type of
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019618.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...