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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,...

…was a prize-winning/ documentary film-maker who had already made a documentary about NSA whistle-blower William Binney. Snowden, while he was still working at the NSA in March 2013, made it clear how he intended to use Poitras' film-making skills. He told her: “My personal desire...

…further. Unlike other whistle-blowers who uncovered what they considered government malfeasance by virtue of their job, 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 Threat Operation...

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...

…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...

…lone? | 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 Threat Opera- ti...

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,...

…ional newspaper, the Guardian. Poitras, however, was having some difficulty in bringing Greenwald in on the plan. Like Snowden, she did not trust writing him in unencrypted emails and, since Greenwald lived in Brazil, she still had not found an opportunity for a face-to-face mee...

…can paper credited with bringing down President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Poitras, as the go-between for Snowden, immediately contacted Gellman. She already knew him from meetings they both attended at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. After telling him she was inv...

Selected Bibliography SELECTED BOOKS Andrew, Christopher. The Sword and the Shield. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Bagley, Tennent H. Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace. Boston: Houghton...

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...

217 CHAPTER TWENTY NINE The Whistle Blower 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 “esp...

… 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 criminal...