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… America’s other intel- ligence agencies quickly recognized the value of the communica- tions intelligence gleaned from foreign telecommunications. John E. McLaughlin, who was the CIA’s acting director in 2004, described the NSA as nothing less than the “very foundation of U.S. i...

…he was he in contact with three high-profile journalists, two well-known hacktavists and, as he suggested to Gellman, a foreign diplomatic mission. Even if Snowden had failed to persuade the Washington Post to publish a coded identifier, the mission’s interest would likely be piq...

…g Kong video, it suggests that any other civilian employee with a perceived grievance against NSA practices or American foreign policy could also walk away with some of the most precious secrets held by U.S. intelligence. Such vulnerability extends to tens of thou- sands of civil...

… of these documents could cripple not just the NSA but America’s entire multi-billion dollar apparatus for intercepting foreign intelligence. The previously-cited summary of requests by the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and other agencies for communications intelligence, for example, which...

Epilogue The Snowden Effect Governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2016 HE ENORMOUS EFFECT that Snowden has had on America can be divided into three categories: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good proceeds f...

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188 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the CIA officer Harold Nicholson, in 1996. Before it could expand its espionage capabilities, it needed to build a network of Russian agents in the United States. For this network, it needed to groom so-called illegals, or agents who were not c...

292 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS November, they made online bookings for quarters in Paris for the nine attackers, Even though Abaaoud was well-known to Western intelligence services, none of the communications surrounding the preparations for the attack came to the attention...

71 anonymous. So, to evade this built-in transparency in the Internet, dark side users have come to rely on ingenious software to hide their IP address. The most commonly used software for this purpose is TOR. It was first called The Onion Router, since it moves IP addresses thr...

… in the Game of Nations. What remains missing from this picture is Snowden's motive in requesting documents from other foreign intelligence services, such as the GCHQ, and copying lists of NSA sources. It is difficult to believe that his motive was conventional whistle-blowing s...

…gue | 5 terms of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him asy-...

Date: Time: Case 7/13/06 PALM BEACH POLICE ee | Page: 68 9227255 Incident Report Program: CMS301L No. . . . : 1+05-000368 (Continued) contact Mr. Dershowitz. On January 3, 2006, I received a telephone call from ASA Weiss who informed me that she made telephone contact with Mr...

312 | Notes to pages 59-70 59 Greenwald had not always: Mark Memmott, “He Broke the NSA Leaks Story, but Just Who Is Glenn Greenwald?,” NPR, June 11, 2013. For his part owner- ship of the HJ website, see Dareh Gregorian, “Glenn Greenwald, Journalist Who Broke Edward Snowden Stor...

78 Greenwald was an activist as well as a journalist. Like Poitras, he joined the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The foundation, which eventually Runa Sandvik and Micah Lee would join, had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange’s Wikile...

…uld supply such a “secure line.” Kislyak then used an open phone line at his embassy to relay Kushner’s response to his foreign ministry in Moscow. It is inconceivable that Kislyak did not know that the call would be monitored by the FBI, since the FBI had routinely listened in o...