Results for “Snowden”

…ractors don’t clear employees. 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 bene...

…more extensive investigation. In 2006, the government learned USIS’s background checks were often prematurely ended. In Snowden’s case, as USIS did not have access to Snowden’s CIA personnel files, it did not learn about the pending security investigation of him. Nor did it learn...

30 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Snowden 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 aft...

…ST 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 therefore did not learn...

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....

…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 everything r...

…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 great detail in a blog that Snowden read (as he later told Green- wald). “Poitras is now forc...

…ira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. The Guardian paid the bill. Her next task was to set up what turned out to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12. The journalist chosen was Lana Lam, a young Australian reporter working for the South Chi...

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...

…resident Obama and his national security team an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this advantage in 2013 by revealing this technology (which was published in The New York Times and other newspapers). The vast nu...

(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...

…pecialists could debrief him on the secrets he held in his head, it would have an even greater interest in exfiltrating Snowden from Hong Kong to get, aside from his docu- ments, whatever secrets he held in his head. If Russian intelligence were willing to opportunistically accep...

…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 acquainted. He instructed Poitras to mask th...

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...

…e two stories by The Guardian and the Post, however, provided the explosive “shock,” at least in the global media, that Snowden had predicted. © Snowden’s identity had not been revealed in either the Guardian ® or the Post story on June 6. Snowden, however, insisted on outing hi...