110 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Fugitive “Tf I end up in chains in Guantanamo, I can live with that.” m= —Edward Snowden, Hong Kong During his interview with Poitras and Greenwald, Snowden said stoically “If I am arrested, I am arrested.” His fatalistic words notwithstanding, Snowden had...
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270 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS deemed others too sensitive for journalists. So I wanted to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden might reveal in...
49 23” but in actuality it had acted on June 22, 2013, which was the day before the plane (or Snowden) departed from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong authorities had been advised as early as June 19, 2013 that there were criminal charges against Snowden and only a typographical error in...
…es to pages 281-293 | 327 Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12 /dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden. “T will be submitting”: “Statement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013, https:// WikiLeaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html. “When I acce...
Whistle-blower | 95 the NSA “to wiretap anyone, even the president,” the press largely accepted his claims as established facts. As for American surveillance, he declared, “I don’t want to live in a society that does those sorts of things.” The Guardian story accompanying the v...
…hree months later from his Moscow lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. On September 23, 2013, Kucherena had an extensive interviewed on the state owned RT channel. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admired journalist in her...
205 of Justice charged with corruption; and Suleyman Kerimov, a civil servant from Dagestan, who had amassed an estimated fortune of $7.1 billion. Kerimov recently had been charged for manipulating a Potash cartel case in Belarus. Most of these clients were reputed to be part of...
…ort, July 14 Snowden first meets Anatoly Kucherena, his lawyer-to-be August I Snowden’s application for asylum is granted for one year. September 23 Kucherena states Snowden has access to NSA documents in Russia October 2 Ray McGovern, Thomas Drake, Coleen Rowley and Jesselyn R...
Enter Assange | 103 Because Hong Kong had a vigorously enforced extradition agree- ment with the United States, as mentioned above, it was expected that Snowden would be taken into custody. But China had the final say in any extradition decision. In fact, China had explicitly be...
106 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tacted the consulate of Iceland while he was in Hong Kong. “We had heard nothing from Snowden,” an Iceland government official told Vanity Fatr. Snowden also did not contact the government of Ecuador while in Hong Kong. In mid-June, while Harr...
…himself as a civilian contractor for the National Security Agency. He took full responsibility for the theft of classified documents, saying that he had acted alone. He said that he had been forced to take these documents to expose a crime that threatened the freedom of Americans...
Notes to pages 98-109 | 315 96 “I was being tailed”: Corbett, “How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden in a Moscow Airport.” CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange 98 “Thanks to Russia”: Julian Assange, “How ‘The Guardian’ Milked Edward Snowden’s Story,” Newsweek, April 20, 2015. 98...
Liz he was the most famous visitor in Hong Kong, his passage through passport control may have reflected the acquiescence of the Hong Kong authorities to the reported request of China to be rid of Snowden by June 23rd. All we know for certain is that Hong Kong airport police did...
98 CHAPTER TWELVE Whistle-blower “They elected me. The overseers... The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility.” --Edward Snowden in Moscow While Snow...
At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...