19 room at the Mira hotel from June 3 to June 9", 2013, as the event was actually unfolding. Snowden, speaking for the camera, describes himself as a civilian contractor for the National Security Agency. He took full responsibility for the theft of classified documents, saying t...
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PROLOGUE On The Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014 The National Security Agency, or, as it now commonly called, the NSA, was created on October 24, 1952, in such a tight cocoon of secrecy that even the Presidential order creating it was classified “Top Secret.” When journalists asked...
e Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) e Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) e Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) e Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-Cl) Zl. What are examples of other...
THE ARTIFICIAL USE OF HUMAN BEINGS Tom Griffiths Tom Griffiths is Henry R. Luce Professor of Information, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. When you ask people to imagine a world that...
164 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS have been reeled in unwittingly. Morell suggested in his book that Snowden might not himself have fully realized “when and how he would be used.” It can be safely assumed that the decision made by Putin’s intel- ligence service to allow Snowde...
One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...
In analog computing, complexity resides in network topology, not in code. Information is processed as continuous functions of values such as voltage and relative pulse frequency rather than by logical operations on discrete strings of bits. Digital computing, intolerant of error...
crowded. I heard the first rumors from a staff officer in military intelligence, though neither he nor anyone else I asked was sure if they were true. But it seemed that the Phalangists had been sent into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to thi...
It’s an absurdly vast house, among the largest in Manhattan, but the dining room is windowless, creating a hermetic or stop-time sense, broken only by the household help ferrying in time-of-day-appropriate foods and beverages. In sweatshirt, draw-string pants, palm beach s...
58 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS CryptoParty, Tor station, and other anti-NSA activities could go unremarked upon. After all, ten or so NSA workers attended the first party, and it is not unlikely that many of them recognized him as their co-worker. If so, they knew (as did San...
Glossary of Specialized Terms 335 Knowledge Base: A shorthand for the totality of knowledge possessed by an intelligent system during a certain interval of time (whether or not this knowledge is explicitly rep- resented). Put differently: this is an intelligence’s total memory c...
142 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russia by design or by accident. Whenever an intelligence worker steals sensitive compartmented information of interest to a foreign adversary and then defects to that adversary, it raises at least the specter of state-sponsored espionage. It i...
THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 2, 2018 The Honorable Devin Nunes Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence United States Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: On January 29, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinaf...
130 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS per answered that the NSA did not knowingly “collect any type of data” on millions of Americans. Clapper’s answer was clearly untrue, but it did not mislead Senator Wyden or any other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Clapper had tr...
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: ART MEETS AI Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the author of Ways of Curating and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book U...