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Hacktivist | 57 ment. Snowden next introduced Sandvik, who took the podium and discussed the work of the Tor Project, stressing the importance of expanding the Tor network. Following their presentations, Snowden and Sandvik took questions from the audience. The Oahu CryptoParty...

…o develop a story that is, concurrently: intrinsically consistent, humanly plausible and symbolically memorable; and in the process, it also identifies and explores the possible holes in the case. Such scenarios must aim at constituting a limited set of alternatives that are mutu...

The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 297 or phone lines more freely if Snowden had not divulged the NSA’s surveillance of them, but there can be little doubt that his breach of the secrecy envelope had serious consequences for U.S., French, and British intelligence. For example,...

78 Greenwald was an activist as well as a journalist. Like Poitras, he joined the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The foundation, which eventually Runa Sandvik and Micah Lee would join, had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange’s Wikile...

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…l CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Dinner with Oliver Stone “T had to ‘tune to [Snowden’s] wavelength’ and try to balance between the rational and intuitive perception of his world. Having experienced these incredible sensations, I realized that I had to write about them, but only in the f...

…atal.” Like Paul, Snowden ardently opposed any form of gun control, as did Lindsay Mills in her online postings. Like other Libertarians, Snowden, a contractor for the government, saw the government as an adversary. “The [American] government,” he later said, “assumed upon itsel...

…Harrison moved to Berlin, where she set up an organization to provide, as she termed it, “an underground railroad” for other fugitives who have provided documents exposing government secrets.) Snowden meanwhile received sanctuary in Russia. His public statements in Hong Kong tha...

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...

282 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS on-camera star of a twenty-hour-long reality show, edited first into a video and then a full-length documentary, transformed him in the public’s mind into a hero. It would be a mistake to assume that the central role he gave himself was simply...

confirmed that the files Snowden had taken a massive number of files

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...

…rity clearance ran out, he applied to renew it. A new clearance required a new background check and filling out (again) the government’s 127-page standard form 86. Since 1996, background investigations for the NSA, like much of the computer work at the NSA, had been outsourced t...

250 CHAPTER TWELVE Whistle-blower 1. “They elected me. The overseers...”-- Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013. 2. “Received a jarring surprise...” Lindsay Mills’s blog, op.cit....

…o, Author’s interview with Anatoly Kucherena “Russian cyber service had...”—Author’s interview with a former member of the staff of the National Security Advisor. “State Department explicitly told...”-- Author’s interview with a former member of the staff of the National Securi...