Tinker | 21 CIA. By 2004, he had joined the FBI as the section head of its avia- tion and special operations. In this capacity, he supervised the joint CIA-FBI interrogation of the prisoners in the Guanténamo base in Cuba, which involved him in the rendition program for terroris...
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211 operations, he could have done the entire operation at Dell. He even could have sent Poitras documents anonymously over his own TOR software and server. And he could have remained in his self-described “paradise” in Hawaii with his girl friend. Yet he chose to move to Booz...
152 If Snowden could cause such massive damage, so could other civilian trainees at the NSA. Someone in the chain of command had to take responsibility, General Alexander tendered his resignation on June 30", 2013. “ I’m the director, “he said, falling on his sword. “Ultimately,...
Whistle-blower | 97 stay and fight the United States government in the courts.” That bit of braggadocio would not be proven out. Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill in their reporting did not concern themselves with any of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret document...
64 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS ing with several people who were all being targeted by the [U.S.] government.” Many of the people she was filming, including Appel- baum, Assange, Binney, and the former NSA employee Thomas Drake, could attract interest by U.S. or foreign intell...
298 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS suggested they had been interested in acquiring radioactive isotopes. Without the advance warning that the NSA’s surveillance of the pre- encrypted Internet had provided in the past, could the CIA now con- tend with such unconventional threats?...
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...
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...
322 | Notes to pages 185-199 182 Putin had publicly enjoined him: Interview, Channel One, http://en-kremlin .ru/events/president/news/19143. Also, former Russian intelligence officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 183 “If Snowden didn’t give”: Former NSA offici...
86 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS from Citizen Four were another matter. They contained the sort of SCI communications intelligence data that no major newspaper had ever published before. Their disclosure might result in journalists’ being imprisoned, because both British law an...
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...
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...