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… the “derog,” was not available to Dell or any other private company. Even though the CIA had “security concerns” about Snowden, as CIA Deputy Director Morell noted, it could not convey them to either Dell or the NSA. “So the guy with whom the CIA had concerns left the Agency and...

…al acrobatic performance group, and, on Friday nights, pole danced at the Mercury lounge in down- town Honolulu. Unlike Snowden, she enjoyed socializing, writing in her blog, “We lovingly crammed a large group into a small corner of a delicious Japanese restaurant and filled our...

…r, according to this former CIA officer, is the part about Snowden’s behavior that concerned his superior. Technically, Snowden, as a CIA communications officer, was autho- rized to use the computer system. The problem was that Snowden had deliberately misused it by adding code t...

… 205 205 205 Notes to pages 199-214 | 323 CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA “There are many things”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” By 1914, the U.S. Army: National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: The Black Ch...

244 CHAPTER NINE The String-Puller 1, 10. ““Tt wasn’t that they put ...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013 “The Journalist to whom...” —The description of Snowden’s attemp...

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...

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...

Off to Moscow | 255 to Terminal E. It is a nine-minute walk through the transit passage- way. Snowden, though, had one good reason for not going to Ecua- dor, even if Russia had permitted it. He believed that he would be vulnerable to rendition by the U.S. government in Ecuador....

…hat just a few selected parts of Snowden’s cache could be traded to the intelligence services of Iran and North Korea. Snowden, realizing that he now represented that weak link in the architecture of America’s intelligence system, made a move from the U.S. that greatly increased...

…ncet.html 22. “Snowden stole from the United States.” Mark Hosenball, “U.S. Spy Agency Targets Changed Behavior after Snowden,” Reuters, May 12, 2014 23. "The vast majority of the electronic documents. ..”—“Snowden Leak Could Cost Military Billions: Pentagon,” NBC News, March...

A Single Point of Failure | 245 during his next 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 c...

Prologue | 5 terms of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China is responsible for Hong Kong’s defense and foreign policy, includ- ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. Russia granted him...

…ors, assume the privileges of system administrators in a network, and capture the passwords of others. On September 11, Snowden, according to hotel records, left India for Japan. While the stated purpose of the hacking training was to allow security consultants to detect intruder...

…ding to the desk clerk. The maximum stay allowed by the hotel was twenty- four hours. So either the rule was waived for Snowden, or Harrison did not tell the full truth. I learned from a former KGB officer that there are VIP quarters beyond the confines of the airport, including...

…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...