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…financial supporters in Britain. He had also all but exhausted his bank account. Aside from money that dribbled in from Poitras’s six-month-old Freedom of the Press Foundation, the only steady source of funds for WikiLeaks in 2013 was the previously mentioned payments Assange rec...

…such a favor could “set off alarms.” The unwitting accomplice scenario had another stumbling block: time. We know from Poitras that Snowden told her in early April 2013 that he planned to deliver documents to her in six to eight weeks (which he in fact did.) But he had not yet s...

…Snowden’s culpability was no longer an issue. What was lacking from Snowden’s video, or the two-hour film made by Laura Poitras, was any specific information on how many documents he had copied, how he had obtained the passwords to the computers on which they were stored, the per...

… to pages 71-80 | 313 71 When they finally settled: The descriptions of the initial two meetings between Greenwald and Poitras in April 2013 are provided in Greenwald's 2014 book, No Place to Hide, pp. 10-15. cHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 “They think there’s a smoki...

…f I end up in chains in Guantaénamo, I can live with that. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Hong Kong, 2013 URING HIS INTERVIEWS with Poitras and Greenwald in June, Snowden said stoically, “If I am arrested, I am arrested.” His fatalistic words notwithstanding, Snowden had made plans to seek a...

…ws by granting interviews to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and other publications. He would join Poitras and Greenwald on the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He would be the subject of an Oscar-winning documen- | | Epst_978045149...

… “Tf I end up in chains in Guantanamo, I can live with that.” m= —Edward Snowden, Hong Kong During his interview with Poitras and Greenwald, Snowden said stoically “If I am arrested, I am arrested.” His fatalistic words notwithstanding, Snowden had made plans to seek a haven fr...

…lthough the NSA program in place in 2013 was not the comprehensive domestic surveillance that Snowden claimed it to be, Poitras had no way of knowing at this early state that her source was misleading her. He offered to substantiate her worst fears about the growth of NSA surveil...

… visible to a sophisticated intelligence service such as the SVR. Consider, for example, the defensive tactics of Laura Poitras, including PGP encryption, TOR software, and air-gapped computers which are computers that have never been connected to the Internet. She also famously...

…aware that he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was acquainted. He instructed Poitras to mask their email communications in cyber space “so we don’t have a clue or record of your true name in your file communication chain.” Such precautio...

…onstrably false. This narrative began soon after Mr. Snowden arrived in Hong Kong, where he arranged to meet with Laura Poitras, a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, and Glenn Greenwald, a Brazil-based blogger for the Guardian. Both journalists were longtime critics of NSA surve...

…rst serious info war is now engaged,” Barlow declared. “The field of battle is WikiLeaks.” He served with Greenwald and Poitras on its board. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 60 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019548

…A’s “single point” of a potential catastrophic intelligence failure. He also stated the consequences if caught, telling Poitras: “The US Intel community will certainly kill you if they think you are the single point of failure.” The reason that Snowden considered himself of such...

…and commodity trading company, headquartered in Sin- gapore, but he frequently traveled to Hong Kong on business. Like Poitras, Sarah Harrison took great care to shield her move- ments. She did not have a Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media account. She did not own a ce...

…d earlier, was the Mira hotel in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, where he checked in under his own name. He e-mailed Poitras his name and the address of the hotel; there was no longer any reason to hide his true identity. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 88 ® 9/29/16 5...