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For example, in October 2014, he told the editor of the Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” According to Mr. Snowden, the U.S. government accomplished this entrapment by suspending his passpo...

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...

[2 Hong Kong. This group constituted the intelligence “mission,” as he referred to it. After Snowden outed himself on the Internet, the mission began tracking Snowden’s movements. Since Snowden, his lawyers and the journalists in his entourage frequently used their cell phones t...

106 according to Assange, Snowden claimed that one reason he decided to take the secret NSA documents was the brutal treatment of Bradley Manning after he was arrested in 2010 by the US government. “Snowden told me they had abused Manning in a way that contributed to his decisio...

111 With three notable exceptions, the flights to them had stopovers in a country that was an ally of the US, and which could seize Snowden. The three exceptions were China, North Korea (via China) and Russia. The only one of these three countries, or any other country, that Sn...

176 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS also said that he was “100 percent” certain that no foreign intelli- gence service had had access to them at any point during his journey from Honolulu to Moscow. When I later asked Kucherena in Mos- cow why Snowden changed his story in direct...

[92 about Snowden for Sony. Stone said that the million dollar deal with Kucherena effectively guaranteed that any competing project would not have access to Snowden. Sony consequently put the competing film on hold. To be sure, it is not unusual for a lawyer to negotiate a dea...

…den 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 Julian Assange had made: David Leigh and Luke Harding, “Julian Assange: The Teen Hacker Who Became Insurg...

…s Technica Report. Op. cit. “Brad Gunson, who knew him....”-- Carol D. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson and Marc Fisher, “Who Is Edward Snowden,” Washington Post, June 15, 2013 “To Anime conventions ...”—Christopher Johnson, “Chatting about Japan with Snowden, Japan Times, June 18, 2013....

… learned from a Russian researcher...”-- Author’s interview with Vassili Sonkine 3. “When I had been investigating...”—Edward Jay Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, op.cit, pp. 209-240 4. “I don’t know him...”—Author’s interview with Andrei Lugovoi 5. “It was a rare...”— The v...

…pper,” Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. 119 “We actually buy cell phones”: Snowden quoted in “New The Guardian Inter- view with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014, https://www.theguardian .com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview -transcript. 121 Domini...

…l, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty... you can come to justify it.” —Snowden in Moscow, 2014 Edward John Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His parents, Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy” Barrett, according to their marr...

…to live in a society that does those sorts of things.” The Guardian story accompanying the video carried the headline “Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveil- lance Revelations.” Overnight, Snowden became a global celebrity and, to much of the world, a hero. T...

…on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admired journalist in her own right. She is also the grand-daughter of Edward Shevardnadze, a former foreign minister and Politburo member of the Soviet Union and, after the Soviet Union broke up, the first president of Georgia. Ev...

…national, Wikileaks and other Moscow-based activist groups. They had been invited the previous day by an emails signed “Edward Snowden” instructing then to go to Terminal F at Sheremetyevo International Airport where they would be met by airport personnel carrying a “G9.” It was...