…aii, Mills posted a seminude picture of herself on her blog, L’s Journey. In it, her face was cov- ered with a blanket. 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 tha...
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44 CHAPTER THREE Tinker “Tt’s like the boiling frog. You get exposed 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, N...
36 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS investigation. In 2006, the government learned these background checks were often prematurely ended. In Snowden’s case, because the CIA did not share its files with a private concern, USIS did not have access to Snowden’s CIA files, and it there...
Ld | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS whole story. Of far more importance is the quality of some of the data that Snowden had copied. Just a single one of these documents could cripple not just the NSA but America’s entire multibillion- dollar apparatus for intercepting foreign inte...
28 Intelligence Agency that the military files compromised by Snowden included documents bearing on military plans and weapons systems; foreign government’s intelligence activities (including special activities), intelligence sources, or methods or cryptology; Scientific and te...
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,...
Did Snowden Act Alone? | 149 other whistle-blowers who uncovered what they considered gov- ernment malfeasance by virtue of their jobs, Snowden, by his own admission, took a new job in 2013 specifically to get access to the SCI files concerning NSA sources that he stole from the...
CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Rubicon What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 S OON AFTER Sno...
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...
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...
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...
256 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Because the Aeroflot flight to Cuba was the only means of get- ting directly from Moscow to Latin America, Russian reporters, encouraged by WikiLeaks posts, continued taking the daily eleven- hour flight to Cuba until August 1. The charade only...
…dent. Whenever an intelligence worker steals sensitive compartmented information of interest to a foreign adversary and then defects to that adversary, it raises at least the specter of state-sponsored espionage. It is a commonly accepted pre- sumption in counterintelligence that...
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...