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…y may seem to be, is not neglected. One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these scenarios is how Snowden got the passwords to up to 24 of these vaults. He could not have obtained these passwords during his previous employment at Dell because Dell technician...

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,...

…rlow declared. “The field of battle is WikiLeaks.” He served with Greenwald and Poitras on its Board in December 2012. Snowden was an avid reader of Greenwald’s screeds against the government. If he was to assume the role of a modern-day Prometheus, delivering forbidden secrets...

…cations. 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 spies at the NSA during the Cold War, Jack Dunlap and David Sheldon Boone, who t...

… to be followed by Grexit. Departugal. Italeave. Fruckoff. Czechout. Oustria. Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium. RT @Snowden: No matter the outcome, #Brexit polls demonstrate how quickly half of any population can be convinced to vote against itself. Q… @ReDefineEurope @EUWa...

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...

…ific 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 an extradition treaty with the United...

Chronology 1: Snowden Thriller: From Honolulu to Moscow in 82 Days. April 8, 2013, Honolulu. Edward Snowden begins working as an infrastructure-analyst in training at the National Threat Operations Center for outside contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. June 5, 2013, London The Gua...

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,...

214 The third choice Snowden made, and the choice that most effectively defined him to the public, was to reveal himself as the man behind the leak in a video in Hong Kong. He not only identified himself as the person who stole the government documents published by the Guardian...

Epilogue The Snowden Effect Governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2016 HE ENORMOUS EFFECT that Snowden has had on America can be divided into three categories: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good proceeds f...

… still defined himself to the public as a whistle-blower because he also had exposed CIA operations to the public. The Snowden case blurs the demarcation line even further. Unlike other whistle-blowers who uncovered what they considered government malfeasance by virtue of their...

…ing 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 discovered that he had no independent basis for his assertion. When as...

CHAPTER 12 Fugitive If 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 ha...