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… 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 passport while he was in midair after he departed Hong Kong on June 23, thus forcing...

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...

…s 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 to text one another, it was fairly easy for the mission to follow Sn...

…taff members to help him engineer his escape to Russia. That senior staff member was Sarah Harrison, After speaking to Snowden, Assange called Harrison, who was in Melbourne, Australia. She had gone there a month earlier to help organize Assange’s somewhat quixotic election camp...

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...

…son identify- ing himself as a senior officer in U.S. intelligence. (Poitras did not know at that time that her source, Snowden, was lying to her about his position.) Wizner also was shown e-mails by Poitras in which Snowden said he had information about the government’s secret d...

…[Kucherena].” This conversation suggested to me that Kucherena was Snowden’s gate- keeper. In his two years in Moscow, Snowden, or his handlers, had granted only a handful of face-to face interviews. One was with James Bamford, who was writing an article on Snowden for Wired mag...

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...

ID CHAPTER THREE Tinker 1. “You get exposed to a little bit of evil...” Bamford. Wired. op. cit 2. “Lon Snowden, like his father ...”—The best reporting on Snowden’s 10. 11. {2. he 14. 1S. childhood was done by Suzanne Andrews. See: Bryan Burroughs, Sarah Ellison and Suz...

…wo, Webster and Oswald, redefected to the United States. 6. “They had been invited...”—Tanya Lokshinam “Meeting Edward Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13,2015 https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12/dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden 7. “Read a prepared statement. ..”—“Statement by Edwar...

Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes Clapper,” 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, htt...

…ng to their marriage records, wed when they were both 18 in 1979. The following year they had a daughter, Jessica. Lon Snowden, like his father before him, served in the U.S. Coast Guard. He was stationed at its main aviation base, where his father-in-law Edward John Barrett, wa...

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...

137 An answer came three 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-admi...

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...