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…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-whistleblower-inte...

26 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS ever, according to a reply by a CIA public affairs officer to the Times, Snowden had not been fired or accused of attempting to “break into classified computer files to which he did not have authorized access.” A former CIA officer who had also...

Contractor | 31 But Snowden found diversions in Japan. In July 2009, Lindsay Mills joined him there. She had become an amateur photographer, specializing in arty self-portraits. She also saw herself as a global tourist, writing in her blog after arriving in Japan that she had tr...

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...

…ear of being tracked by an intelligence service. When she travelled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. A precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveillance of...

…r, 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 of it. On June 23, the Demo- cratic senator Charles Schumer of New York correctly said, based on a...

56 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS that he “had been talking some of the more technical guys at work into setting up some additional fast servers” for Tor. His “work” place at the time was the NSA. So, if he was telling the truth, he had already attempted to find co-workers at th...

…Aeroflot official, ordinarily all international pas- sengers are required to have a valid passport as well as a visa to the country of final destination. Snowden had neither a valid passport nor a visa. Still Snowden was able to board the flight to Moscow. Aeroflot, a state-contr...

Enter Assange | 101 departure from the position Snowden had taken in his postings on the Ars Technica site in January 2009. He complained in a post there about the detrimental consequences to U.S. intelligence of leakers’ revealing “classified shit” to The New York Times, and he...

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...

160 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS surveillance, as the CIA deputy director later revealed. Such moves could indicate that at least part of the U.S. communications intel- ligence that Snowden had stolen was in enemy hands. The CIA and NSA’s monitoring of these countermeasures wa...

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,...

136 image. The 35-page Defense Intelligence Agency’s damage assessment, for example, that said that 900,000 Pentagon documents were compromised by Snowden, was not made public. It was only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. What is known...

184 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Pawn in the Game “The whole key is, the state department’s the one who put me in Russia.” --Edward Snowden in Moscow, 2014 When Snowden arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, 2013 he became a person on interest to any parties who knew, or later learned,...