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...
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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?...
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...
154 CHAPTER NINETEEN The Rise of the NSA “There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback,” -- National Intelligence” — James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence In the Game of Nations, which is played at...
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....
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...
…den didn’t give”: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, inter- view with author. 183 German federal prosecutor: Theodore Schleifer, “Germany Drops Probe into U.S. Spying on Merkel,” CNN Politics, June 13, 2015. 184 “Russian planners might have”: Adam Entous, Julian E. Ba...
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...
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...
Contractor | 29 growing antagonism toward the U.S. government, he had not given up on, if not becoming a secret agent, working in the netherworld of secret intelligence. There was still a back door through which he could reenter the spy world. Private corporations hired civilia...
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...
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...