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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...
161 intelligence. A former top intelligence official told me “The queen 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...
98 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS reporter in Berlin in 2014. “The risks became very great,” she said 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, S...
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...
CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers i...
…aks became a media sensation, and Assange, the runner-up for Time’s Man of the Year for 2010, became a leading figure, along with Appel- baum, in the global hacktivist underground. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 99 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019587
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String Puller | 67 to back up the charges he made that Stellarwind was an unlawful domestic surveillance operation. He could not have done so without violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, U.S. anti-espionage statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists th...