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…ERICA 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 night flight f...

…nse 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 documents t...

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...

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....

…R 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, about his c...

…he 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 during his monthlong stay in Hong Kong to go to any Latin American country. Before he went public on June 9, he could have eas...

…oft, a variation of paintball, in which participants used realistic-looking pistols to splatter each other with paint. Snowden’s good fortune came to an abrupt end in 2008. He suf- fered a massive loss in his options speculations. He wrote in a post that he had “lost $20,000 in...

… machines with a blind addicts urgency. It infects governments too. “Surprising realization (at least for me) after the Snowden leaks,” Dullien observed. “Hacking is so addictive that entire organizations can become addicts and show addict-style behavior.” 155 This was the NSA or...

….” Statement Analysis: “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald.” http://www.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 hos...

…t Prism to Date,” Washington Post, June 12, 2013 20. “. By the Lawfare Institute’s count,” https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden- revelations 21. “Edward Snowden is not the "whistleblower" ...”-- “NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers discusses freedom, privacy and security issues at...

… Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 3. “This powerful narrative...” See Greenwald, op. cit. pp. 248-254. Snowden “Trapped: Interview with Brian Williams, May 28, 2014, http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview 4. “When two NSA analysts...”—‘“Claim US...

…s’ offer (although he would consult a friend at the Justice Department about the legality of publishing NSA documents. Snowden now had laid the groundwork for at least two possible outlets; one an establishment newspaper in Washington DC, the Washington Post; and a well-respecte...

…rected her to contact Greenwald. “I recommend that at the very minimum you involve Greenwald. I believe you know him.” (Snowden apparently did not tell her that he had unsuccessfully attempted to reach out to Greenwald before he had contacted her.) His continued interest in Gree...

…mbergview.com/articles/2015-03-04/petraeus-justice- and-washington-s-culture-of-leaks > In an interview in Moscow...”—Snowden met with James Bamford, the author of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace. In Moscow in June 2014. James Bamford. “Edward Snowden: The Untold Story,” Wired,...

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...