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CHAPTER 7 String Puller It wasn’t that they put it on me asan individual—that I’m uniquely qualified [or] an angel descending from the heavens—as that they put it on someone, somewhere. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 D OWNLOADING NSA documents was not Snowden’s only rogue activ...

296 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS These precise tips for evading U.S. and British surveillance were not accidentally leaked. Snowden supplied them in written answers to interrogatives sent to him by Poitras and Appelbaum in May 2013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He als...

…urces and methods. Snowden exposed this vulnerability when he walked away with, among other documents, the 32,000 page-long country by country descriptions of the gaps in America’s coverage of the communications of its adversaries. Even though the Cold War had been declared over...

150 agents were to be assigned. All it had discovered was the history of the preparations for a major espionage revival. It now knew that the SVR had installed plumbing in America that one or more agents in this network had been activated to handle a possible recruit in the NSA....

80 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS maintenance work. Even though Snowden was no longer a system administrator, he could still perhaps befriend a system administrator or even steal or borrow a service computer. Whatever the NSA’s and Booz Allen’s security measures, Snowden succee...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 135 communications intelligence. It provided a valuable window on the activities of adversary nations in the Pacific region and was able to monitor the ballistic missile tests and submarine activities of China, North Korea, and Russia. By 2013, th...

…scovered: Tom Harper, Richard Kerbaj, and Tim Shipman, “British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese,” Sunday Times (London), June 14, 2015. 184 “losing some of its capabilities”: Chris Strohm and Gopal Ratnam, “NSA Leader Seeks Openness on Secret Surveillance Orders,” Bloomb...

…at were pur- ported to be top secret documents that came from an anonymous source. She was certainly not willing to go along with Citizen Four’s demand that The Guardian publish his personal manifesto alongside the documents. Aside from its shrill and alarming tone, it sounded, a...

169 Nor did the NSA alter its reliance on private contractors. The Snowden breach notwithstanding, the back door to the NSA remained wide opened because by the time of Snowden outsourcing to private companies had become an all but irreplaceable part of the intelligence system in...

216 before departing to Moscow, and Assange accommodated him by laying down a smoke screen of decoy flights to facilitate his escape from Hong Kong and sending him a helper. Taken together, these actions show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others before him had fa...

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...

68 Such a fascination with the power of government-held secrets has always been a core concern of radical libertarians. In his 1956 book The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies, the sociologist Edward Shils brilliantly dissects the f...

82 her long-time concerns about being watched by the government. “Your victimization by the NSA system means that you are well aware of the threat that [the NSA’s] unrestricted, secret abilities pose for democracies,” he continued. “I hope you understand that contacting you is e...

…tions at the NSA’s regional base in Japan, and Snowden applied. Relocat- ing would be no issue for him because he had a longtime interest in going to Japan. He had little problem obtaining the job. He had a single compel- ling qualification: like all other CIA officers, he had b...

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...