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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,...

… as far as is known, did not offer him sanctuary. According to one U.S diplomat, it may have already obtained copies of Snowden’s NSA files, and did not want the problem of having Snowden defect to Beijing. In any case, if it had not already acquired the files. It could assume it...

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...

…er than June 21, when they were pub- lished on the front page of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Presumably, Snowden knew that actions by the U.S. govern- ment were already in progress and that one of these actions would include restricting his passport. One of his law...

…thing a User Does on the Internet,” Guardian, July 31, 2013. 291 Further enabling furtive Internet: Appelbaum, “Edward Snowden Interview.” 291 These precise tips: Joseph Menn, “Exclusive: Secret Contract Tied NSA and Security Industry Pioneer,” Reuters, Dec. 20, 2013. 291 as G...

…ally 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 surveillance of American intel- ligence there. Instead, for thirteen days in Hong Kong she worked through intermed...

…, because I knew almost nothing 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...

…uxiliary computer presumably to thumb drives or other external storage devices. This download occurred just days before Snowden left the NSA on May 17, 2013, having told the agency that he needed a med- ical leave of absence. The quantity of stolen documents, 1.7 million, does n...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 145 Hawaii. Nor would that data be forthcoming from Snowden, who may be the only witness to the crime. By June 23, he was in a safe haven in Moscow. Even though the grand jury case against Snowden was cut and dry, it was also irrelevant because th...

Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, “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, htt...

…, “there was no press or photographers allowed in the room.” Nor was anyone allowed to photograph or record the event. Snowden read from a prepared statement accusing the U.S. gov- ernment of violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, saying he was a victim of politica...

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...

…oitras, 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 negotiating with Gibson, Snowden arranged for Micah Lee, Poitras’s associate at the Freedom of the...