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 The Seventh Sense Power, Fortune and Survival in the Age of Networks Joshua Cooper Ramo 1 . Part One: The Nature of Our Age In which the revolutionary character of our era is explained. The need for a new instinct is introduced. The historical stakes are weighed. Chapter 1: The...

…eptember? Abdel-Moneim Said Article 4. Asia Times Show goes on in Iraq's political circus Sami Moubayed Article 5. TIME The Optimism Bias Tali Sharot Article 1. NYT Pay Attention Thomas L. Friedman May 28, 2011—Cairo -- I had some time to kill at the Cairo airport the other...

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...

…book that Snowden might not himself have fully realized “when and how he would be used.” It can be safely assumed that the decision made by Putin’s intel- ligence service to allow Snowden to travel to Russia proceeded from something other than softhearted sentiment about his wel...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 143 charges prevented the Hong Kong police from immediately order- ing his detention. His Hong Kong lawyers were certainly advised of these pending charges no later than June 21, when they were pub- lished on the front page of the South China Morn...

…nball, “U.S. NSA Internet Spying Foiled Plot to Attack New York Subways: Sources,” Reuters, June 7, 2013. 290 provided the “critical lead”: Marshall Erwin, “Connecting the Dots,” U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Jan. 13, 2014,. 290 “I can tell you”: Rogers quoted in Ed P...

…W AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS intelligence service. When she traveled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, she avoided meeting Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the surveillance of...

Whistle-blower | 91 “The initial impression was one of extreme confusion,” Greenwald wrote in his book. “I was expecting to meet somebody in his six- ties or seventies, someone very senior in the agency, because I knew almost nothing about him prior to our arrival in Hong Kong.”...

The Crime Scene Investigation | 145 Hawaii. Nor would that data be forthcoming from Snowden, who may be the only witness to the crime. By June 23, he was in a safe haven in Moscow. Even though the grand jury case against Snowden was cut and dry, it was also irrelevant because th...

The Handler | 269 if not unprecedented for an American intelligence worker to seek asylum in Russia. These invitees included some of Putin’s close associates, pro- government activists, and representatives of both Amnesty Inter- national and Human Rights Watch. “It was totally...

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...

String Puller | 61 Snowden was an avid reader of Greenwald’s screeds against the government. If he were to assume the role of a modern-day Pro- metheus, delivering forbidden NSA secrets to the public, Greenwald would be a logical candidate to break the story. Snowden could safel...

…Artist | 87 anonymous source in Hong Kong for Gibson. Greenwald accepted her terms. Poitras, who would be accompanying them, would be paying her own way. In case The Guardian failed to publish the story, Snowden had a contingency plan in place. While Greenwald was negotiating w...

…ttp://www.infowars.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/laur...

…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 qualification for the job—a top secret clearance. For an outside contractor such as Dell,...