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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...
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 11 Enter Assange Thanks to Russia (and thanks to WikiLeaks), Snowden remains free. —JULIAN ASSANGE, Newsweek, 2015 ULIAN ASSANGE had made a brilliant career of trafficking in state, military, and corporate secrets. Born on July 3, 1971, in Queensland, Australia, Assan...
306 | Acknowledgments Because I do not believe an investigative book should be written without the author visiting the crime scene and other pertinent ven- ues, I undertook research in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Moscow. Where possible, I flew the same flights that Snowden did...