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… 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 contradiction of...

[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...

…onths 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 own r...

186 The day after his attempt to pressure the Washington Post, he asked Greenwald to drop everything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. He had, it will be recalled, already sent Poitras an enciphered file, and told her she would get the key once she and Greenwald fol...

…arrangements with a foreign government. To that end, he asked Gellman to insert an encrypted key in Internet version of the NSA expose that Snowden proposed he write for the Washington Post. He told him the purpose of the encrypted key was to assist him with a foreign government....

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...

…, her Internet avatar, was a match for Snowden’s “Wolfking Awesomefox,” In Japan, Mills and Snowden spent time with another American couple, Jennie and Joseph Chamberlin, who also worked at the Yokota base. Jennie, a sergeant in the public affairs section of the US Air force, ha...

66 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon “What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. “ --Edward Snowden, interviewed in M...

…tement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013, https:// WikiLeaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html. “When I accepted the case”: Kucherena, interview with author. Kucherena had personally approved: Shevardnadze, interview with author. CHAPTER 27 Snowden’s Choices Presidentia...

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...

…ed 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 Putin’s inner circle. To break the ice, I asked him about Oliver Stone. I knew he had a small role in Oliver Stone’s f...

…leen Rowley and Jesselyn Radack meets with Snowden and Harrison. October 10 | Snowden aided by ACLU legal team put together by Ben Wizner October 16 Snowden interviewed, via Internet, by James Risen (VY Times) November I Snowden joins the board of the Freedom of the Press Founda...

The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing | 175 rov, had spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary Clinton’s State Department a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup for Russia, but also it would add to Pu...

…: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of it?” “Snowden spent quite a few years working for the CIA....

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...