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…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...

…//blogs.newschool.edu/news/2013/08/laura-poitras-secret- no-longer/#. VggJhN_BzGc 12. ““T didn’t. You chose yourself.”—Snowden’s emails to Laura Poitras were extracted from her film CitizenFour and published in Wired. See Andy Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to Fir...

56 Japan. It first had to find technicians willing to go to Japan. Since Snowden had a long-time interest in going to Japan, he was more than willing to relocate to Japan. He had little problem obtaining the job. Aside from his family connections, he had a single compelling qua...

…ket. The caption under it read, “Trying to avoid the changes coming my way.” In Honolulu, she found “E.,” as she called Snowden in her blog, “elusive.” She found that he preferred to stay at home and avoided meeting other people to the point that her friends “were not quite sure...

…ed 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, North Carolina. His parents, Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy” Barrett...

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...

ahd CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Handler 1. “As for his [Snowden’s] communication...”-- Anatoly Kucherena 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 Vas...

…t 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 be done by the NSA. What the United States...

…Russia granted him asy- lum, making it unlikely that U.S. authorities would ever have the opportunity to question him. Snowden’s escape left in its wake an incredibly important unsolved mystery: How hada young analyst in training at the NSA succeeded in penetrating all the layer...

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...

…ed 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 records show that he arrived at the Hyatt Re...

…our flight to Cuba until August 1. The charade only ended when Kucherena said in a press conference at the airport that Snowden would be taking up residency at an undisclosed location in Moscow and walked out of the airport with Snowden. Sarah Harrison, Snowden’s companion on th...

…a prior intelligence connection with Russia. Philby confirmed that in his 1968 memoir, My Silent War. So in the case of Snowden, coun- terintelligence had to consider the possibility that his theft of state secrets and his arrival in Moscow might not be totally coincidental. Sno...

…tched a task force of agents to investigate a poten- tial espionage case in Hawaii. When questioned, Lindsay Mills said Snowden was away on a business trip. After determining from airline and hotel data that he was in Hong Kong, the FBI realized Snowden was a possible intelligenc...

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...