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,...
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…s made to board a non-stop flight to Moscow on June 23, 2013. To remain in Hong Kong once a criminal complaint was leveled against him would have meant that, at the very minimum, Hong Kong authorities would seize him and the alleged stolen property of the US government in his pos...
164 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS have been reeled in unwittingly. Morell suggested in his book that Snowden might not himself have fully realized “when and how he would be used.” It can be safely assumed that the decision made by Putin’s intel- ligence service to allow Snowde...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 137 The DIA found from its forensic examination that Snowden had copied “over 900,000” military files. Many of these non-NSA files came from the Cyber Command, which had been set up in 2011 by the NSA and the army, navy, marine, and air force cryp...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 143 charges prevented the Hong Kong police from immediately order- ing his detention. His Hong Kong lawyers were certainly advised of these pending charges no later than June 21, when they were pub- lished on the front page of the South China Morn...
328 | Notes to pages 293-299 http://intelligence.house.gov/1-four-declassified-examples-more-50-attacks -20-countries-thwarted-nsa-collection-under-fisa-section. 290 Grand Central station: Mark Hosenball, “U.S. NSA Internet Spying Foiled Plot to Attack New York Subways: Sources...
102 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS intelligence service. When she traveled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, she avoided meeting Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveil...
…thing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.” His initial confusion was understandable. Snowden, it will be recalled, had falsely identified himself to them in an e-mail as a senior mem- ber of the intelligence community. Snowden led Greenwald and Poitras to the nearby ele...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 139 puter intended to be used for temporary storage by authorized ser- vice personnel. Finally, the data was transferred off this auxiliary computer presumably to thumb drives or other external storage devices. This download occurred just days bef...
…aven in Moscow. Even though the grand jury case against Snowden was cut and dry, it was also irrelevant because the United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia. The purpose of the intelligence investigation went far beyond determining Snowden’s guilt or innocen...
…eck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes Clapper,” Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. 119 “We actually buy cell phones”: Snowden quoted in “New The Guardian Inter- view with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014, https://www.theguardian .com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistle...
The Handler | 269 if not unprecedented for an American intelligence worker to seek asylum in Russia. These invitees included some of Putin’s close associates, pro- government activists, and representatives of both Amnesty Inter- national and Human Rights Watch. “It was totally...
92 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS evidently set off alarm bells at Booz Allen and the NSA. Snowden expressed anger to the journalists in the room at the NSA’s intru- sions on the privacy of his girlfriend. Snowden also performed his security procedures on camera, including stuf...
String Puller | 61 Snowden was an avid reader of Greenwald’s screeds against the government. If he were to assume the role of a modern-day Pro- metheus, delivering forbidden NSA secrets to the public, Greenwald would be a logical candidate to break the story. Snowden could safel...
Escape Artist | 87 anonymous source in Hong Kong for Gibson. Greenwald accepted her terms. Poitras, who would be accompanying them, would be paying her own way. In case The Guardian failed to publish the story, Snowden had a contingency plan in place. While Greenwald was negoti...