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…OW 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 also caref...

…aries. The most important of these in peacetime is communication intercepts. It was just such state secrets that Edward Snowden took from the NSA in the spring of 2013. Before that breach, America’s paramount advantage in this subterranean competition was its undisputed dominance...

…d security procedures, such as the polygraph examination and extensive background checks. In 1995, only 10 years before Snowden joined it, the CIA's inspector general completed a study of the KGB’s use of false defectors to mislead the US government from the end of the Cold War i...

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...

…visor had delayed reporting the absence to the NSA until May 28. It also determined that the missing civilian employee, Snowden, had lied on his application for a medical leave and had flown to Hong Kong. Personal records showed he was being trained as an analyst at the Threat Op...

…resident/news/19143. Also, former Russian intelligence officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 183 “If Snowden didn’t give”: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, inter- view with author. 183 German federal prosecutor: Theodore Schleifer, “Germany Drops P...

…ng to sound crazy to some people.” Her concern was that it would detract from the credibility of the rest of the story. Snowden had also writ- ten to Greenwald to explain his position. “Even the Constitution is subverted when the appetites of power demand it,” Snowden said. Parap...

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...

…ecoy 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 failed. He not only wanted to take full credit for stealing files from the NSA but he wanted to es...

…e 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-whistle...

… over others holding secrets is the belief that by obtaining such secrets will give individuals power over government. Snowden himself was concerned with a coming “dark future,” which he later described as follows: “[The elites] know everything about us and we know nothing about...

… she was entering into a dangerous liaison with an unknown party in pursuit of NSA secrets. To elude this “adversary,” Snowden stressed to her that she would have to adopt a conspiratorial set of mind. “If the device you store the private key and enter your passphrase on has bee...

…ived their paychecks from, private employers. In fact, many of these outside contractors worked full-time for the NSA. Snowden applied in April 2009 to one of these private compa- nies, a subsidiary of the Dell computer company. To diversify out of © manufacturing computers, De...

…APTER 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 Cracks in F...

Zl? 16. “The mission’s already accomplished...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished, “ Washington Post, December 13, 2013 17. “His legal representative in Moscow...”-- Sophie Shevardnadze, “Snowden believes he did...