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268 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS “T was impressed by how few takes he needed to shoot my scene,” he answered. “How did you come to be Snowden’s lawyer?” I asked. “Snowden picked me from a roster of fifteen lawyers with which he had been provided.” Because Snowden did not sp...

33 than six weeks. He had taken the medical leave on May 18, 2013 left the country by plane. By June 7 he had become the NSA’s main suspect. Snowden had been hired to work there as an outside contractor by Booz Allen Hamilton, a private company owned by a hedge fund, which manag...

241 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon 1. “What I came to feel...” —Snowden quoted in “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview...

…resident Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup for Russia, but also it would add to Putin’s personal credibil- ity in advance of the Olympic Games in Russia. In mid-June, after USS. intelligence reported to Obama’s national security adviser that Snowden was in co...

…DZE: SO he [Snowden] does have some materials that haven’t been made public yet? KucHERENA: Certainly. Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of it?” “Snowden spent quite a few years working for the C...

Contractor | 31 But Snowden found diversions in Japan. In July 2009, Lindsay Mills joined him there. She had become an amateur photographer, specializing in arty self-portraits. She also saw herself as a global tourist, writing in her blog after arriving in Japan that she had tr...

54 Snowden, as a CIA communications officer, was authorized to use the computer system. The problem was that Snowden had deliberately misused it by adding code to it. This code could have compromised the security of the CIA’s “live system.” So while what the CIA public affairs o...

244 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS was a nervous period,” Snowden recalled. Although he bravely told The Guardian “there was no risk” that the information he carried had been compromised by other parties in Hong Kong, that claim was, at best, wishful thinking on his part. By th...

107 phone for fear of being tracked by an intelligence service. When she travelled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. A precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the...

144 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS he declared that this agent would be “welcome, provided, however, that he stops any kind of activity that could damage Russian-US relations.” Even before that public confirmation of the Russian role in Hong Kong, the White House was well aware...

…fast servers” for Tor. His “work” place at the time was the NSA. So, if he was telling the truth, he had already attempted to find co-workers at the NSA who might be interested in attending an anti-NSA surveillance presentation. Sandvik not only agreed to be Snowden’s co-present...

…| HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS According to one Aeroflot official, ordinarily all international pas- sengers are required to have a valid passport as well as a visa to the country of final destination. Snowden had neither a valid passport nor a visa. Still Snowden was able to bo...

…101 departure from the position Snowden had taken in his postings on the Ars Technica site in January 2009. He complained in a post there about the detrimental consequences to U.S. intelligence of leakers’ revealing “classified shit” to The New York Times, and he suggested as pu...

…arth. Russia’s great.”—Snowden Moscow, 2015 My night flight from New York to Moscow took less than eight hours. It landed at 7:40 AM on October 29, 2015 at terminal D a Sheremetyevo International Airport. I did not immediately proceed through passport control, not just because I...

160 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS surveillance, as the CIA deputy director later revealed. Such moves could indicate that at least part of the U.S. communications intel- ligence that Snowden had stolen was in enemy hands. The CIA and NSA’s monitoring of these countermeasures wa...