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…up his plan of using Greenwald in his enterprise. He merely sought an intermediary who used encryption. He chose Laura Poitras. He knew she and Greenwald were found- ing board members of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Green- wald had written about her extensively. For exam...

…self, referring to her Citizen Four source. “Will he put me in prison?” To elude this “adversary,” Snowden stressed to Poitras that she would have to adopt a conspiratorial frame of mind. “If the device you store the private key and enter your pass phrase on has been © hacked,...

…une 2015. What is known is the number of documents that Snowden gave to journalists in Hong Kong. As will be recalled, Poitras and Greenwald were “writing partners.” When Greenwald discovered that his copy of the documents were corrupted, Poitras made a copy of the thumb drive t...

… phone for bugs. It was not without irony that he went through these security rituals to protect his data as he allowed Poitras to film NSA data on his computer screen. Because he planned to use these journalists as his outlets to go public in a few days, the security measures he...

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

…r correspondent could be “immediately implicated,” it meant that he was a person authorized to handle these secrets. So Poitras knew, as early as January 2013 that she was creating an encrypted channel for someone with access to NSA secrets and who would be incriminated by provid...

…rticle/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.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government- ele...

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...

…tay 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 documents in the history of th...

…s, four months after he was in Russia, that he had turned over all the documents he took from the NSA’s compartments to Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong. On August 18, the investigators had the opportunity to examine the files that Snowden had given to Poitras and Greenwald. Th...

…ons. Snowden promised the leaks he would supply would provide dra- matic results. He asserted in one of his e-mails to Poitras that the “shock” of the documents he would give Greenwald would result in the public’s learning about the secret “mechanisms through which our privacy i...

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...

…ageous whistle-blower. The Snowden interview in the video subsequently was expanded by the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras into the two-hour movie CitizenFour, which won the 2015 academy-award for the best documentary. Poitras said in accepting her Oscar in the Academy Award...

…er 23, 2013. 2. “Received a jarring surprise...” Lindsay Mills’s blog, op.cit. 3. “Every trick in the book...” Snowden Poitras emails. Op.cit. 4. “On timing, regarding meeting. ..”—The description of the meetings with Snowden in Hong Kong, June 3-June 9, is taken from Poitras’...