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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...

…s culture of distrust, whatever contradicts the innocent whistle-blower narrative can be preemptively dismissed because Snowden, even though he remains ensconced in Moscow at an unknown location, remains the ultimate truth teller. I do not accept either this formulation of Snowd...

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...

…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...

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...

…s, electronic communica- tions, and credit card records. In addition, the government has its own tools of surveillance. Snowden, by disclosing that the govern- ment was vacuuming in phone billing records and Internet activi- ties, hit a sore spot in the public’s consciousness. Ho...

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...

…Fair that the 2009 incident in the CIA convinced him that © working “through the system would lead only to reprisals.” Snowden, if not yet a ticking time bomb, was certainly a disgrun- tled intelligence worker before he ever got to the NSA. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.in...

…e that spawned the great divide cannot be resolved by accepting the uncorroborated statements made by a source, such as Snowden, who may be in the hands of the Russian security services in Moscow. By the same token, the calculations made by NSA officials about the extent of the...

“Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA

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