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… he had no doubt the intelligence services of Russia and China “had an enormous interest in him and the information he [Snowden] had stolen.” Presumably, the last thing these adversary services would want would be to make this “interest” transparent to the United States. The rol...

…ng 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 working for the U.S. govern- ment for the previous...

…ld’s offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Hardy, a Guardian reporter commissioned by the Guardian editor to write “the Snowden Files,” a book that Oliver Stone bought the film rights from the Guardian for $700,000. See The Snowden Files. op cit. p.100-115 16. “Arranged for Mica...

13 Nor did Snowden’s breach begin with him handing over classified documents to the Guardian reporters in Hong Kong in June 2013 or, for that matter, in the eleven days prior to his meeting with journalists in 2013. He had, as the NSA quickly determined begun illicitly copying d...

…o steal the more valuable secrets of services is called an “expanding penetration.” It is not possible to believe that Snowden did not know the damage that the highly-sensitive documents he was taking from the NSA and its allies. Even if they did not reveal any unlawful American...

…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...

… recognized him as their co-worker. If so, they knew (as did Sandvik and Mills) that the Tor advocate “Cincinnatus” was Snowden. He had also not been shy in contacting notable enemies of the NSA via e-mail, such as Jacob Appelbaum, Parker Higgins, and Asher Wolf. If anyone, inclu...

118 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Did Snowden Act Alone? “When you look at the totality of Snowden's actions certainly one hypothesis that jumps out at you, that seems to explain his ability to do all these things, is that he had help and had help from somebody who was very competent in the...

CHAPTER 26 The Handler As for [Snowden’s] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact. —ANATOLY KUCHERENA, Moscow, 2013 N NOVEMBER 1, I still had not been able to make contact with Anatoly Kucherena, and my flight back to New York was in five days. My fix...

146 Snowden’s supporters, to be sure, disputed this view. If only as an act of faith in Snowden’s personal integrity, they continued to believe his avowal to Senator Humphrey that he had acted to protect U.S. secrets by shielding them from adversary intelligence services after h...

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Edward Snowden on video shown in Hong Kong: AP Photo/Kin Cheung NSA base on Oahu: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Barton Gellman: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong: AP Photo/John Minchillo Mira hotel: Courtesy Ena and...

…sses of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem extremely unlikely that Snowden h...

…f working for a super-secret agency was that if one errs or has a failure. “Tt stays secret.” He later found out in the Snowden case which exploded during his tenure at the NSA, that not all failures stay secret. Even so, the NSA cannot always find convenient metrics to measures...

116 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Some secret methods that Snowden made public compromised the NSA’s state-of-the-art technology of which adversaries had been unaware. For example, the NSA had devised an ingenious tech- nology in 2008 for tapping into computers abroad that had...

…ontractor managed to slip in through this back door, he could easily jump from one outsourcer to another. This was what Snowden did when he moved from Dell to Booz Allen Hamilton in 2013. Despite its security flaws, outsourcing provided a number of advantages to the NSA. For one...