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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...

…ped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. “ --Edward Snowden, interviewed in Moscow 2014 Soon after Snowden failed to get a SES job at the NSA, he intensified his rogue activities. At that time, Dell was tasked w...

… October 13, 2014 (Hereinafter Snowden Emails to Poitras.) 13. “He wrote to Micah Lee...”—Micah Lee’s involvement with Snowden, although know to journalists Greenwald and Poitras since April 2013, was not revealed to the public for some 18 months. See Micah Lee, “Ed Snowden taug...

… little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty ... you can come to justify it. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 DWARD JOSEPH SNOWDEN was born on June 21, 1983, in Eliza- beth City, North Carolina. His parents were Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy”...

…f as a global tourist, writing in her blog after arriving in Japan that she had trav- eled to seventeen countries. Like Snowden, she also deemed herself, tongue in cheek, a “super hero.” In this sense, her Internet avatar was a match for Snowden’s Wolfking Awesomefox. In Japan,...

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...

…such decoy tickets to confuse Snowden’s pursuers in US and British intelligence. The only actual tickets she bought for Snowden, according to an Aeroflot official, was a one-way ticket to Moscow. She paid for it at the last minute. She also bought a ticket for self on the same fl...

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...

…ir privacy by using both encryption and Tor software. According to one attendee who asked not to be identified by name, Snowden, while not revealing that he worked for the NSA, spoke with such precise knowledge about government surveillance capa- bilities that the attendee suspec...

…elayed to the foreign press organization in Moscow, resulting in over a dozen reporters flying to Havana on the flight. Snowden, of course, never showed up for it. “In some of our communications, we deliberately spoke about that [flight] on open lines to lawyers in the United Sta...

…ff members to help him engineer his escape to Russia. That senior staff member was Sarah Harrison. © After speaking to Snowden, Assange called Harrison, who was in © Melbourne. She had gone there a month earlier to help organize Assange’s somewhat quixotic election campaign for...

194 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Vanishing Act “They talk about Russia like it’s the worst place on earth. 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 Inte...

…n was forced out of the CIA in 2009. It will be recalled that the CIA had planned to launch a security investigation of Snowden, but it was aborted when he resigned. He had also incurred large losses specu- lating in the financial markets in Geneva, which is the kind of activ- it...

250 CHAPTER TWELVE Whistle-blower 1. “They elected me. The overseers...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013. 2. “Received a jarring surprise...” Lindsay Mills’s blog, op.cit....