296 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS These precise tips for evading U.S. and British surveillance were not accidentally leaked. Snowden supplied them in written answers to interrogatives sent to him by Poitras and Appelbaum in May 2013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He als...
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265 265 265 272) 272 273 274 277 279 280 281 282 282 283 285 285 287 287 289 289 290 Notes to pages 281-293 | 327 Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12 /dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden. “T will be submitting”: “Statement by Edward...
Notes PRoLoGuE Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 3, “No Such Agency”: The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in Bamford, Puzzle Palace, 1-4. 4 the NSA learned: General Keith Alexander, interview with author. 4 twelve-minute video: This video can be seen at h...
195 196 198 198 198 198 199 199 200 200 201 202 203 204 204 205 205 205 Notes to pages 199-214 | 323 CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA “There are many things”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” By 1914, the U.S....
111 With three notable exceptions, the flights to them had stopovers in a country that was an ally of the US, and which could seize Snowden. The three exceptions were China, North Korea (via China) and Russia. The only one of these three countries, or any other country, that Sn...
322 | Notes to pages 185-199 182 Putin had publicly enjoined him: Interview, Channel One, http://en-kremlin .ru/events/president/news/19143. Also, former Russian intelligence officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 183 “If Snowden didn’t give”: Former NSA offici...
94 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the response of these three officials, which included the admonition by Litt that “no serious news organization would publish this,” Gib- son gave the green light to publish the story. The story broke on June 6. “NSA Collecting Phone Records of...
182 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS before he left Hong Kong in June 2013. Why would Appelbaum keep it secret for more than four months? The same pressure to publish would also apply to the journalists Snowden had dealt with in Hong Kong. If Snowden had given Poitras, Greenwald,...
216 before departing to Moscow, and Assange accommodated him by laying down a smoke screen of decoy flights to facilitate his escape from Hong Kong and sending him a helper. Taken together, these actions show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others before him had fa...
188 reset button in this game. The best that the NSA could do now was damage control while its adversaries took full advantage of the setback. Several hundred US and British intelligence officers worked around the clock in Washington DC, Fort Meade, Maryland and Cheltenham, Engl...
CHAPTER 23 A Single Point of Failure A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. —Wikipedia Grower DESCRIBED anyone who was the sole repository of secrets that could undo the NSA’s intelligence gathering a...
190 Chronology 3 Snowden in Russia 2013 June 23 Snowden arrives from Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International Airport on Aeroflot flight SU213 at 5:15 PM local time. Sarah Harrison arrives from Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International Airport on Aeroflot flight SU213 at 5:15 PM...