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66 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon “What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. “ --Edward Snowden, interviewed in M...

….com/mini- documentary-reveals-full-extent-of-stellar-wind-domestic-spy- program/ 11. “Poitras had other impressive credential...” New School blog, “Laura Poitras: Secret No Longer,” New School News, August 14, 2013 http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2013/08/laura-poitras-secret-...

… clearance. For an outside contractor such as Dell, such a security clearance was pure gold. If a potential recruit lacked a top secret clearance, before Dell could deploy him or her at the NSA, it needed a wait for the completion of a time- consuming background check. Ifa recrui...

… “paradise” in June 2012, shortly before his twenty-ninth birthday. Just before leaving Annapolis for Hawaii, Mills posted a seminude picture of herself on her blog, L’s Journey. In it, her face was cov- ered with a blanket. The caption under it read, “Trying to avoid the changes...

44 CHAPTER THREE Tinker “Tt’s like the boiling frog. You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty... you can come to justify it.” —Snowden in Moscow, 2014 Edward John Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, N...

…RICA 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 been at the...

…herena Interview, “Snowden believes he did everything right,” Sophie & Co, RT Television, September 23,2013 2. “I learned from a Russian researcher...”-- Author’s interview with Vassili Sonkine 3. “When I had been investigating...”—Edward Jay Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime,...

…le Point of Failure | 245 during his next fifteen days in Hong Kong would not likely escape China’s scrutiny. The United States had the ability to also follow Snowden’s move- ments via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. All tracking could b...

…itain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him asy- lum, making it unlikely that U.S. authorities would ever have th...

248 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Escape Artist 1. “I’m not self-destructive...”—Bamford. Wired. op.cit. 2. “At this point, Snowden...”—Author’s interview with former DIA officer who requested anonymity. 3. “He had visited Hong Kong. ...”—Lindsay Mills’ blog, op.cit. 4. “According to...

Contractor | 33 later. In fact, he later used the very vulnerability he pointed out to steal NSA documents at Dell. In September 2009, still on the Dell payroll, Snowden made a ten- day trip to India. He later said he was on an official visit “working at the US embassy.” Hotel...

…roflot flight to Cuba was the only means of get- ting directly from Moscow to Latin America, Russian reporters, encouraged by WikiLeaks posts, continued taking the daily eleven- hour flight to Cuba until August 1. The charade only ended when Kucherena said in a press conference a...

… AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russia by design or by accident. Whenever an intelligence worker steals sensitive compartmented information of interest to a foreign adversary and then defects to that adversary, it raises at least the specter of state-sponsored espionage. It is a commo...

…t week of June. The FBI is in charge of criminal investigations of civilian U.S. intelligence workers, even if the alleged crime occurs on an NSA base. The FBI immediately dispatched a task force of agents to investigate a poten- tial espionage case in Hawaii. When questioned, Li...

Hacktivist | 57 ment. Snowden next introduced Sandvik, who took the podium and discussed the work of the Tor Project, stressing the importance of expanding the Tor network. Following their presentations, Snowden and Sandvik took questions from the audience. The Oahu CryptoParty...