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…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 Jenkins, “Th...

…ong the advan- tages of working for a super-secret agency was that if one errs or has a failure, “it stays secret.” The Snowden case showed that not all failures stay secret. The NSA can certainly quantify the amount of data it is intercept- ing, but it obviously cannot count th...

…apter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine CONTENTS PROLOGUE On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014 PART ONE The Intelligence Crisis The Great Divide The Crime Scene Investigation PART TWO Snowden’s Arc Tinker Secret Agent C...

…pite the near-perfect scores, the NSA did not offer him a Senior Executive Service job. “It was totally unrealistic for Snowden to expect to get an SES position,” a former senior NSA officer told me. Snowden’s ambitions might have been disappointed in this instance, but it did no...

…ntelligence community doubts the prudence of taking such precautions in China, and it is nearly incon- © ceivable that Snowden, whose prior position at the NSA included © teaching military personnel about Chinese capacities, could himself be unaware of Chinese intelligence servi...

…igence service. At minimum, it suggests that a rival government placed value on what the defector could provide it. The Snowden case is no exception. Whatever Snowden’s prior relations might have been with Russia, it can be assumed that after he fled to Moscow, in light of the in...

…ies. The most impor- tant 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...

…t in his book, NSA secrets are a form of currency for adver- saries in the global intelligence war, saying that part of Snowden’s cache could be traded by a country that acquired it to the intelligence services of Iran and North Korea. Snowden’s stay in Hong Kong from May 20 to...

…uld become, if he was already, a potential espionage source for Russia. Whatever his initial motivation may have been, Snowden’s actions would appear squarely at odds with his assertions of serving his country’s interests. Even accepting that he began with a sincere desire to be...

…ER 4 Thief We begin by coveting what we see every day. —HANNIBAL LECTER, The Silence of the Lambs N HAWAII IN 2012, Snowden was living a very comfortable life. He was earning just over $120,000 a year from Dell. His hous- ing allowance covered the rent and the lease on his c...

Snowden and Mills had much in common. They both had

” Snowden boasted in May 2006 on the website Ars

as he later said. Snowden saw that a rogue system administrator like

Snowden made a ten day trip to India. He later said he was on an official

Snowden’s contract in Japan with Dell SecureWorks came