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236 29 “He pointed out from Moscow...”—Snowden interview with Brian Williams. NBC Interview, op.cit. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020388

290 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tions intelligence secrets to a foreign power with an agenda that is hardly aligned with his country’s interests. A defector is defined in the Cambridge English Dictionary as “a person who leaves his or her own country or group to join an oppos...

CHAPTER 29 The “War on Terror” After Snowden Because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government's role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that make our ability coll...

…n on our chessboard had been taken.” To be sure, even after the loss of its “queen,” the game was not lost. The NSA moved to mitigate the damage and find new ways of obtaining unexpected intelligence. In June 2014, the new NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers had to confront flag...

…d in describing her situation in Hong Kong. So, on June 15, she left Hong Kong and flew back to Berlin, where she began editing her footage of the Snowden interview. Meanwhile, Snowden, organizing his own exit from Hong Kong, placed a call to Julian Assange. | | Epst_9780451494...

114 sent to the cloud. Once secret documents are taken, they are compromised. How Snowden succeeded in this coup cannot simply be pieced together from his statements and interviews. The story also requires a visit to the wilderness of mirrors called counterintelligence. 38 ko...