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A Single Point of Failure | 245 during his next fifteen days in Hong Kong would not likely escape China’s scrutiny. The United States had the ability to also follow Snowden’s move- ments via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. All tracking c...

202 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS share of their signals intelligence. From the perspective of defending themselves from potential threats, the deal that these allies had with the NSA was mutually advantageous. The NSA‘s overseas intelligence gathering was not limited to adver...

…ar. The job of an intelligence service is to take advantage of whatever opportunities come its way in the form of self-generated spies. If a Russian walk-in had not yet burned his bridges to his own ser- vice, U.S. intelligence officers were under instructions to attempt to pers...

4 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS their secret messages, the NSA goes to extraordinary lengths to keep them secret. Draconian laws protect this secrecy. In the first week of June 2013, the NSA learned that there had been a massive breach. Thousands of secret files bearing on com...

… had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. The FBI and DOJ obtained one init...

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Prologue | 5 terms of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him...

One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mischief, and worse, that the new administration could face. “Dee...

30 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Snowden still had his security clearance, despite his highly prob- lematic exit from the CIA, because the agency had instituted a policy a few years earlier that allowed voluntarily retiring CIA officers to keep their clearance for two years aft...

42 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS That same July, Snowden had other things on his mind, includ- ing an attempt to advance himself. Although his position at Dell as a system administrator was a well-compensated one, especially for a twenty-nine-year-old with no formal education,...

36 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS investigation. In 2006, the government learned these background checks were often prematurely ended. In Snowden’s case, because the CIA did not share its files with a private concern, USIS did not have access to Snowden’s CIA files, and it there...

220 provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying in a well-prepared safe-house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown associate. All that is really known is that soon after he emerged from this venue and gave his celeb...

214 The third choice Snowden made, and the choice that most effectively defined him to the public, was to reveal himself as the man behind the leak in a video in Hong Kong. He not only identified himself as the person who stole the government documents published by the Guardian...

206 “When I accepted the case, I received Snowden’s dossier.” He answered. “I was able to see all his interviews.” Presumably Snowden’s dossier included his interviews with the FSB, SVR and other Russian security services. If so, it would explain how Kucherena could be so certa...