42 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS That same July, Snowden had other things on his mind, includ- ing an attempt to advance himself. Although his position at Dell as a system administrator was a well-compensated one, especially for a twenty-nine-year-old with no formal education,...
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214 The third choice Snowden made, and the choice that most effectively defined him to the public, was to reveal himself as the man behind the leak in a video in Hong Kong. He not only identified himself as the person who stole the government documents published by the Guardian...
119 almost all the FBI files there. The conspirators escaped and kept their identities secret for over 42 years. Self-definitions also do necessarily produce a distinction between whistle-blowers and conventional spies. Consider, for example Philip Agee. Agee left the CIA in 19...
The Great Divide | 131 acted to “trap” him in Moscow by revoking his passport while he was already on a plane to Moscow on the afternoon of June 23. None of these journalists asked Snowden what the basis for his oft- repeated allegation was. If they had, they would have discover...
254 | 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 ni...
136 image. The 35-page 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...
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...
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,...
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...
84 met and “everything else is done,” he said “The key will follow.” He was now pulling the strings. To get that key, she had to follow his instructions. One of his conditions was that she helps him recruit Greenwald and other outlets for his disclosures. “The material provided...
…Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anony- mous. New York: Verso, 2015. Epstein, Edward Jay. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. . Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS Edward Snowden on video shown in Hong Kong: AP Photo/Kin Cheung NSA base on Oahu: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Barton Gellman: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong: AP Photo/John Minchillo Mira hotel: Courtesy Ena and...
…er 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 “espionage source” to describe moles, voluntee...
…on com- munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded regional base in Oahu, Hawaii. The suspect was Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old civil- ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the breach was discovered. According to a three-count c...