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148 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS bounties from money raised on the Internet. In 2015, for instance, WikiLeaks offered $100,000 bounties to any whistle-blowers who provided the site with secret documents exposing details of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement. Nor is acting alon...

could supply such a “secure line.” Kislyak then used an open phone line at his embassy to relay Kushner’s response to his foreign ministry in Moscow. It is inconceivable that Kislyak did not know that the call would be monitored by the FBI, since the FBI had routinely listened in...

125 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Question of When? “The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security” —Snowden in Moscow In his 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Joh...

…ces, none of the communications surrounding the preparations for the attack came to the attention of the NSA or its allied services in Europe. A critical find for the investigators enabled them to unravel the chain that eventually led them to the perpe- trators, but it had nothin...

…top them from absolute encryption.” Tor software was a means to defeat the NSA, but for it to be suc- cessful, there needed to be such a proliferation of Tor servers that the NSA could not piece together IP addresses. The problem was that the Tor Project, as they called it, was...

String Puller | 73 ment. In addition, the information was in line with what they had previously investigated or written about. None of these journalists had any reason to doubt at this point that their anonymous source was anything but the sincere whistle-blower he claimed to be...

…, 81, 121, 147, 176, 247-49 Scavino, Dan, 229 Schiller, Keith, 217, 229 Schlapp, Matt, 127, 129, 131-33 Schlapp, Mercedes, 129 Schmidt, Michael, 277 Schwartz, Arthur, 249, 298-300 Schwartz, Tony, 22 Schwarzman, Stephen, 35, 78, 87-88, 298 Secret Service, 84 Seinfeld (TV...

…ectromagnetic signals, hacking into computers, and eavesdropping on distant conversations, but using special units, called “tailored access operations,” to plant listening devices in embassies and diplomatic pouches. It also organized elaborate expeditions to penetrate cables in...

…ider of the Inner Sanctum They think there’s a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 HE NIGHTMARE OF THE NSA is a penetration. As the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA found out in the 1990s, no intelligence service is inv...

From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: 12/19/2015 2:28:32 PM To: Ed Subject: Re: My review today in wsj of conspiracy theories Importance: High could i pay you to organzie my story into a coherent presentation. . probaly a six- 9 moth job. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:36 PM...

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268 13. “A computer system called E-QIP...”-- Joe Davidson, “ Federal background check system shut down because of ‘vulnerability’,” Washington Post, June 29, 2015 14. “This memorandum noted the...”—Author’s interview with a former NSA executive who requested anonymity. “NSA w...

ae software had a conceptual flaw. If US intelligence services used it, the targets could figure out that anyone visiting a site without an IP address was using TOR software to hide it. If TOR was exclusive used by US intelligence services, the targets could further deduce that...

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240 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In fact, he advertised that he had such secrets in his interview with the South China Morning Post. Whatever he might have assumed about the inability of the CIA to stop him in Hong Kong, he could not assume that Chinese intelligence services w...