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even though they had been isolated from any network. This innova
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019790.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

302 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS even though they had been isolated from any network. This innova- tion had provided President Obama and his national security team an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this adv...

possible that Snowden smuggled in a key logger in his backpack, it could not be operated
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020273.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

(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...

ton, D.C., to Austria so that its specialists could debrief him on the
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019752.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...

put her. But because they were exchanging private text messages
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019578.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019781.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

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...

the response of these three officials, which included the admonition
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019582.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

94 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the response of these three officials, which included the admonition by Litt that “no serious news organization would publish this,” Gib- son gave the green light to publish the story. The story broke on June 6. “NSA Collecting Phone Records of...

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)

151 demonstrated the NSA had few, if any, fail-safe defenses against a would-be leakers of communication intelligence. In the new domain of cyber warfare, conventional defensive rules do not apply. “There are no rivers or hills up here. It’s all flat. All advantage goes to the a...

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)

188 reset button in this game. The best that the NSA could do now was damage control while its adversaries took full advantage of the setback. Several hundred US and British intelligence officers worked around the clock in Washington DC, Fort Meade, Maryland and Cheltenham, Engl...

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...

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)

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...

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)

…spionage 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. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp- edward-snowden-nsa-...

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...