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…4 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS vious meetings with Bamford. So I sent Kucherena, via Zamir, ten questions that I wanted to ask Snowden. I next obtained a multi-entry Russian visa from the Russian con- sulate in New York and booked myself a room in the Hotel National. My nigh...

…e Defense Intelligence Agency’s damage assessment, for example, that said that 900,000 Pentagon documents were compromised by Snowden, was not made public. It was only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. What is known is the number of docum...

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...

…gh 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. “If they [the U.S. government] really wanted to capture me, they...

… CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Pawn in the Game “The whole key is, the state department’s the one who put me in Russia.” --Edward Snowden in Moscow, 2014 When Snowden arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, 2013 he became a person on interest to any parties who knew, or later learned, abou...

Prologue | 11 proved ineffective in hiding him from U.S. intelligence and presum- ably other intelligence services seeking the treasure trove of docu- ments he had taken from the NSA. As for his next destination, I could find no evidence that Snowden had made any arrangements d...

24 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS advantage of his compensation to live the high life. He gambled on financial developments by buying and selling options, which are contracts that allow speculators to bet on the directions of the mar- ket without buying the actual stocks, bonds,...

…tworks 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 Master Chapter 2: The Age of Network Power Chapter 3: The Unbuc...

…w.statementanalysis.com/lee-harvey-oswald/ Like Snowden, Oswald was a high school dropout from a broken family who joined an elite unit of the U.S military but failed to get an honorable discharge, became hostile to policies of the U.S. government and defected to Russia. See Edw...

230 the U.S. Court of Appeals on procedural grounds. By this time, however, the legal issue was rendered moot by Congress. See http://law justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/2015/ 19. “This program was not entirely secret...” Timothy B. Lee, “Here Is Everything We Kno...

…1. CitizenFour can be seen in its entirety on-line at https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ 2. “Sitting on his unmade bed...”— George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 3. “This powerful narrative...” See Greenwald, op. cit. pp. 248-254. Snowden “Trap...

85 surveillance, if Gellman agreed to write a story on it for the Washington Post. Even though Gellman had left the staff of the Washington Post in 2010, he had previously written several stories on that subject for the newspaper. He was also highly-regarded by the editors there...

…e of his conditions was that she helps him recruit Greenwald and other outlets for his disclosures. “The material provided and the investigative effort required will be too much for any one person,” he wrote Poitras. He next directed her to contact Greenwald. “I recommend that at...

…12. LB. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. “Six government employees...” Matt Apuzzo, “C.I.A. Officer Is Found Guilty in Leak Tied to Times Reporter,” New York Times, January 26, 2015. The notable exception to policy of seeking imprisonment of intelligence workers found guilty of passing...

PROLOGUE On The Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014 The National Security Agency, or, as it now commonly called, the NSA, was created on October 24, 1952, in such a tight cocoon of secrecy that even the Presidential order creating it was classified “Top Secret.” When journalists asked...