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…ths of the Net,” New York Review of Books, October 8, 2015 “What do you think the public would do...”—Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013 “Silk Road, which acted...”-- Homer Jenki...

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...

212 documents were not their illegality. Nor did the fact they were lawful actions stop him from taking highly-sensitive GCHQ documents referring to them. In his five weeks at this Booz Allen job, he also used this same newly-acquired “Priv Ac” at the NSA to steal files from the...

58 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS CryptoParty, Tor station, and other anti-NSA activities could go unremarked upon. After all, ten or so NSA workers attended the first party, and it is not unlikely that many of them recognized him as their co-worker. If so, they knew (as did San...

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...

124 In view of such past successes 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 ex...

165 companies acted less like management consultants and more like temporary employment agencies in finding for the NSA the computer specialists, who had the necessary security clearances. Unlike intelligence services, their fate depended on turning profits. Since the value of t...

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...

168 Despite all the potential flaws in it, the outsourcing system, ii seemed to work until 2013. It even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James...

Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Snowden’s

Chapter Twenty-Four Dinner with Oliver Stone Chapter Twenty-Five Vanishing Act Chapter Twenty-Six through the Looking Glass Chapter Twenty-Seven the Handler PART SIX CONCLUSIONS Chapter Twenty-Eight Snowden’s Choices Chapter Twenty-Nine = The Whistle Blower Who Became an Espion...

186 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russian troop movements in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials even went so far as to suggest, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, that “Russian planners might have gotten a jump on the West by evading U.S....

83 practically include comprehensive coverage of the United States.” As a result, he wrote. “The amount of US communications ingested by the NSA is still increasing.” He further offered to substantiate her worst fears about the growth of NSA surveillance’ “TI know the location...