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260 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Congress by exaggerating the Soviet threat.” Cherkashin evaluated Ames as a man who felt not only slighted by his superiors but “help- less to do anything about it” within the bureaucracy of the CIA. “The money we gave, even if he could spend o...

183 Snowden’s trip to Hong Kong in May 2013 made the Chinese intelligence service, willy-nilly, a potential player in game. Hong Kong is a part of China, even if independently administrated, and, as such, China has full responsibility for its national security and foreign affair...

100 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In November 2010, however, he ran into a legal problem in Sweden. A judge in Stockholm ordered his detention on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion. He denied the charges but was arrested in London on a European arrest...

and other information that the government or individuals may have a right to keep from the public. It may also include disclosure of personal information that may embarrass individuals.

because it provides advanced fair warning and an opportunity to challenge the provisions of the code before they are enforced. (That’s why I also favor a narrow code criminalizing the publication of only the most dangerous state secrets).

or were they scapegoats of the cold war whose execution was a grave miscarriage of justice? That both are true is the intriguing argument of [the new book.]

… had listed in his email. Their relaxed, nerdish temperament was reflected in the design of the Internet itself - open, generous, easy to manipulate, emotional at times in debates over protocols, freedom loving. The net design was, as well, a reaction against the systems that tro...

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…y encrypt his computer. To make his point, he cited Greenwald’s own November 12, 2012 blog. In it, Greenwald noted that General David Petraeus, then the CIA director, had been caught in a minor sex scandal because his personal emails had been intercepted, Snowden wrote Greenwald...

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,...

Bezos owns) hold back publication on their investigation of AMI, and that Bezos stop a private investigator he hired to look into AMI — otherwise they would publish photos of Bezos’ penis. Bezos was brave to expose Pecker’s extortion. It is interesting that Pecker and AMI seems...

176 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS also said that he was “100 percent” certain that no foreign intelli- gence service had had access to them at any point during his journey from Honolulu to Moscow. When I later asked Kucherena in Mos- cow why Snowden changed his story in direct...

216 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tions to private companies, but the Clinton administration in 1996 had privatized background checks for government employees requiring security clearances. The idea, backed by Vice President Al Gore, was to reduce the size of the federal govern...

…len Hamilton, a private company owned by a hedge fund, which managed much of the information technology at the Center. General Alexander, returning to Washington DC after assigning the sensitive job of investigating the breach to Richard “Rick” Ledgett, the Director of the NSA’s...

222 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, poten- tial jihadist threats everywhere in the world, and much else. The Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR,...