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…en’s second “carer”—a job that would require her presence in Moscow for the next four months. Once the plane took off, Snowden, who had only said a few words in the car, said to her, as she recalled, the first full sentence she had heard from him. It was “I didn’t expect that Wi...

At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...

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,...

PA session because, to do so, would be revealing classified information he had swore to protect. No doubt other intelligence officers find themselves in a similar bind in discussing secret matters. This suggests that there is a risk in accepting statements made by the intelligen...

oF countries. Like Snowden, she also deemed herself, tongue and cheek, a “super hero.” In this sense, her Internet avatar, was a match for Snowden’s “Wolfking Awesomefox,” In Japan, Mills and Snowden spent time with another American couple, Jennie and Joseph Chamberlin, who als...

…Washington Free Beacon, Feb. 24, 2015. ® EPILOGUE The Snowden Effect 295 “Governments can reduce our dignity”: Edward Snowden, “Governments Can Reduce Our Dignity to That of Tagged Animals,” Guardian, May 3, 2016. 298 published in The New York Times: David E. Sanger and Thom S...

45 parents separated, Snowden’s mother, Wendy, bought a two-bedroom condominium in Elliott City, Maryland. She moved Snowden, along with his two cats, into the condominium. She remained in the family house while awaiting its sale. According to his neighbor Joyce Kinsey, Snowden,...

18 CHAPTER ONE The Great Divide “What you’ve seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg.” -- retired Admiral Michael McConnell, vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton On June 9, 2013, the Guardian, the British newspaper known for the quality and gravity of its reporting posted...

…n his first 11 days in Hong Kong, they would be shut down. If any operatives had been used in Hawaii to guide or assist Snowden, they would be put back into the sleep mode. If any tell-tale traces had been left in chat rooms or social media, they would be systematically deleted....

…e. Lee wrote to Poitras about Anon1o8. The next day, with the approval of Poitras, Lee supplied Poitras’s public key to Snowden, or, as he knew him, Anon108. With it, Snowden contacted Poitras directly. He asked her as a first step to open an anonymous e-mail account using Tor s...

… powerful in the section of the international media that assisted Snowden in his release of NSA documents. In defending Snowden, it questions the truthfulness of any government official or member of Congress who discloses information contradicting Snowden’s claims or show- ing th...

…therwise he could not represent him. Snowden agreed to that condition. Shortly before 5:00 p.m., Kucherena accompanied Snowden, who was wearing an open-neck blue shirt and a badly creased jacket, to area Gg in the transit zone, where they emerged from a door marked “Authorized P...

…he Center’s regional branch in Hawaii was from where highly-sensitive documents were stolen and where the main suspect, Snowden, last worked. Ledgett immediately boarded a military jet bound for Hawaii. His first task was to reconstruct the chronology all of Snowden’s moves at th...

The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing | 175 rov, had spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary Clinton’s State Department a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup for Russia, but also it would add to Pu...

174 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS SHEVARDNADZE: 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?” “Snow...