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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...

Whistle-blower | 91 “The initial impression was one of extreme confusion,” Greenwald wrote in his book. “I was expecting to meet somebody in his six- ties or seventies, someone very senior in the agency, because I knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.”...

go | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS put her. But because they were exchanging private text messages by then, he would not have needed to consult her public journal. Snowden was certainly aware that he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was...

66 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS aware of the threat that [the NSA’s] unrestricted, secret abilities pose for democracies,” he continued. “I hope you understand that con- tacting you is extremely high risk and if you are willing to agree to the following precautions before I sh...

136 image. The 35-page Defense Intelligence Agency’s damage assessment, for example, that said that 900,000 Pentagon documents were compromised by Snowden, was not made public. It was only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. What is known...

92 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS evidently set off alarm bells at Booz Allen and the NSA. Snowden expressed anger to the journalists in the room at the NSA’s intru- sions on the privacy of his girlfriend. Snowden also performed his security procedures on camera, including stuf...

Escape Artist | 87 anonymous source in Hong Kong for Gibson. Greenwald accepted her terms. Poitras, who would be accompanying them, would be paying her own way. In case The Guardian failed to publish the story, Snowden had a contingency plan in place. While Greenwald was negoti...

since Poitras had the latter one. Lee wrote Poitras about “anon108.” The next day

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...

246 10, 2014 http:/Awww.thenation.com/article/edward-snowden-speaks- sneak-peek-exclusive-interview/ > 20. “You have been ‘selected’...”-- Snowden Emails to Poitras. op. cit. 21. “Binney had been a...” —Frontline Interview, “William Binney,” PBS. December 13, 3013, //www.pbs....

211 operations, he could have done the entire operation at Dell. He even could have sent Poitras documents anonymously over his own TOR software and server. And he could have remained in his self-described “paradise” in Hawaii with his girl friend. Yet he chose to move to Booz...

Whistle-blower | 97 stay and fight the United States government in the courts.” That bit of braggadocio would not be proven out. Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill in their reporting did not concern themselves with any of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret document...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 139 puter intended to be used for temporary storage by authorized ser- vice personnel. Finally, the data was transferred off this auxiliary computer presumably to thumb drives or other external storage devices. This download occurred just days bef...

72 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS course, the similarity of the phrasing might not have been entirely coincidental. Greenwald’s 2012 speech had been put on YouTube and widely circulated on the Internet just a few days before Snowden first wrote to him on December 1, 2012. Snowde...

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...