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212 documents were not their illegality. Nor did the fact they were lawful actions stop him from taking highly-sensitive GCHQ documents referring to them. In his five weeks at this Booz Allen job, he also used this same newly-acquired “Priv Ac” at the NSA to steal files from the...

290 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tions intelligence secrets to a foreign power with an agenda that is hardly aligned with his country’s interests. A defector is defined in the Cambridge English Dictionary as “a person who leaves his or her own country or group to join an oppos...

… NSA is officially part of the Department of Defense, it operated with a high degree of autonomy with its own inspector general, inves- tigative staff, and reporting channels. The DIA did not learn from the NSA that Snowden had stolen military documents concerning the joint Cyber...

113 Snowden himself came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone in a three-mile radius [of me] is going to get hammered,” he later explained to a reported from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on Nov...

314 80 80 80 81 81 81 81 81 82 82 83 83 84 85 86 88 88 89 89 go go go | Notes to pages 80-96 At this point: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. He had visited Hong Kong: Lindsay Mills’s blog. According to Albert Ho: Bradsher, “Hasty Ex...

187 The U.Ss also had the ability to track Snowden’s movements via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. This tracking could all be done by the NSA. What the U.S. lacked was any practical means to capture a high-profile intelligence defector in...

138 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS officials to these three key questions “proved maddeningly diffi- cult.” He found that in mid-June NSA officials with whom he dealt were so “distraught at the massive security breach” that initially they refused to allow even CIA officers to pa...

154 CHAPTER NINETEEN The Rise of the NSA “There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback,” -- National Intelligence” — James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence In the Game of Nations, which is played at...

…e enormous power of the NSA rested on a frail thread: its ability to keep secret from its foes its sources and methods. General Alexander could call the NSA’s communication intelligence “the queen on the chessboard,” but, like the queen in a chess game, it could be captured by a...

…Levien, Elizabeth Greenman, Pushkal Mishra and Tom Rickeman. In a statement to The Lit Daily, Lubna Qassim, chief group general counsel and company secretary of the Emirates NBD, said, "While there was no basis for this case being tried in U.S. courts, Emirates NBD Bank is deeply...

240 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS In fact, he advertised that he had such secrets in his interview with the South China Morning Post. Whatever he might have assumed about the inability of the CIA to stop him in Hong Kong, he could not assume that Chinese intelligence services w...

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...

…en provided to the NSA by the GCHQ. Unless such intelligence disasters were freak aberra- tions, it appeared to confirm General Alexander’s warning in 2014 that the NSA was “losing some of its capabilities, because they’re being disclosed to our adversaries.” Snowden’s supporter...

217 CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source “The [U.S.] government’s investigation failed—that they don’t know what was taken” —Edward Snowden in Moscow In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term “esp...

…state secrets are really secrets whose disclosure would embarrass—properly embarrass—office holders. Even the Solicitor General who argued for the Nixon Administration to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers later acknowledged this reality. That’s why selective leaking and...