136 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS ment in the theft of state secrets in the first 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...
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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...
120 sure, scenario-building differs from that of a conventional forensic investigation aimed at finding pieces of evidence that can be used to persuade a jury ina courtroom. Unlike a judicial investigation concerned with guilt and innocence, scenario-building looks building look...
The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 297 or phone lines more freely if Snowden had not divulged the NSA’s surveillance of them, but there can be little doubt that his breach of the secrecy envelope had serious consequences for U.S., French, and British intelligence. For example,...
78 Greenwald was an activist as well as a journalist. Like Poitras, he joined the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The foundation, which eventually Runa Sandvik and Micah Lee would join, had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange’s Wikile...
L£/0 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS sixty years monitored government communications. It had also kept track of adversaries’ missile telemetry, submarine movements, and nuclear proliferation. The Snowden breach was not without precedent at the NSA. There had been two Russian spi...
eel CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Dinner with Oliver Stone “T had to ‘tune to [Snowden’s] wavelength’ and try to balance between the rational and intuitive perception of his world. Having experienced these incredible sensations, I realized that I had to write about them, but only in the...
40 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS cine,” he said. “When you have too much it can be fatal.” Like Paul, Snowden ardently opposed any form of gun control, as did Lindsay Mills in her online postings. Like other Libertarians, Snowden, a contractor for the government, saw the gover...
The Question of When | 165 under horrific conditions for over a year while awaiting his trial and was facing a long prison sentence. There was no reason for Snowden to expect a better outcome for himself if he returned to the United States or was arrested anywhere else that had...
…analyst in training at the National Threat Operations Center for outside contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. June 5, 2013, London The Guardian publishes a classified document revealing that the National Security Agency has secretly been gathering the telephone billing records of mil...
42 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS That same July, Snowden had other things on his mind, includ- ing an attempt to advance himself. Although his position at Dell as a system administrator was a well-compensated one, especially for a twenty-nine-year-old with no formal education,...
…. “You should remain anonymous; the stories are just as good without you.” However, anonymity was not part of Snowden’s long game. The reason he gave Greenwald in Hong Kong for going public in this way was to avoid any suspicion falling on his co-workers at the NSA. Yet, if mere...
…y Congress. Snowden’s breach provided another benefit. It pointed to the security dangers proceeding from the NSA’s headlong rush to outsource its computer servicing to private con- tractors. Opening this back door, as Snowden amply demonstrated, greatly increased the risk that A...
…y, this was it. which were actually computer The perpetrator Snowden pierced these barriers by using passwords that belonged to other people and using credentials that allowed him to masquerade as a system administrator. However it was carried out, it was feat required meticulo...
The Great Divide | 131 acted to “trap” him in Moscow by revoking his passport while he was already on a plane to Moscow on the afternoon of June 23. None of these journalists asked Snowden what the basis for his oft- repeated allegation was. If they had, they would have discover...