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…loyees. The government does.”-- Admiral Michael McConnell, Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton Snowden, age 26, returned from Europe and moved into his mother’s condo. He was not only unemployed now, having resigned the CIA without qualifying for any benefits, but his financial...

60 after his CIA security 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,...

…en still had his security clearance, despite his highly prob- lematic exit from the CIA, because the agency had instituted a policy a few years earlier that allowed voluntarily retiring CIA officers to keep their clearance for two years after they left. This “free pass,” as one f...

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...

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....

… 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 2 — 19 "No intelligence service. ..”-- Glenn Greenwald, “Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey,” Guardian, July 16, 2013 An answer came three...”-- Sophie Shevardnadze, “'Snowden believes he did every...

String Puller | 65 2006 she had been kept on a list that caused authorities to search her at airports. As a result, she took elaborate countermeasures to evade any possible surveillance of her communications. Snowden knew about this incident because Greenwald described it in gr...

…ack to Brazil that day. Soon afterward, he would resign from The Guardian. In February 2014, he became the co- founding editor of The Intercept, an online publication dedicated to investigative journalism, which was backed by the Internet billion- aire Pierre Omidyar. Poitras re...

104 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS government filed charges, though, Snowden could further expect it would invalidate his passport to go anywhere except for his return to the United States, and Interpol would issue a red alert to all its mem- bers. Because his case involved nati...

302 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS even though they had been isolated from any network. This innova- tion had provided President Obama and his national security team an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this adv...

(21 possible that Snowden smuggled in a key logger in his backpack, it could not be operated wirelessly inside the Center because, like all other NSA facilities, the computers had been insulated to lock-out wireless transmission. This precaution was taken to guard against an EMP...

…illing to opportunistically accept the delivery of U.S. secrets from an unknown espionage source that it neither recruited nor controlled, such as Hanssen, it would obviously have little hesitancy in acquiring the secrets that Snowden had stolen of his own volition, even if Snowd...

… AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS put her. But because they were exchanging private text messages by then, he would not have needed to consult her public journal. Snowden was certainly aware that he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was acquaint...

The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 293 the call but not the name of the caller. This anonymous data was archived into a huge database. The idea was that when any foreigner on the FBI’s watch list of terrorists called any number in the United States, the FBI could trace that per...

94 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the response of these three officials, which included the admonition by Litt that “no serious news organization would publish this,” Gib- son gave the green light to publish the story. The story broke on June 6. “NSA Collecting Phone Records of...