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…e apparently considered himself safe enough to take another irrevocable step in his defection. He sent journalist Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian a “welcome package,” as he called it, of 20 top-secret NSA documents on May 25, 2013. He had now not only downloaded documents but, i...

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...

String Puller | 61 Snowden was an avid reader of Greenwald’s screeds against the government. If he were to assume the role of a modern-day Pro- metheus, delivering forbidden NSA secrets to the public, Greenwald would be a logical candidate to break the story. Snowden could safel...

…; and a well-respected international 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 opp...

…Washington Post, December 23, 2013 “The Journalist to whom...” —The description of Snowden’s attempts to contact Glenn Greenwald in December 2012 and January 2013 can be found in Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide, (Metropolitan Books, New York, 2014, pp. 7-10 “Up until 2004, Gr...

312 | Notes to pages 59-70 59 Greenwald had not always: Mark Memmott, “He Broke the NSA Leaks Story, but Just Who Is Glenn Greenwald?,” NPR, June 11, 2013. For his part owner- ship of the HJ website, see Dareh Gregorian, “Glenn Greenwald, Journalist Who Broke Edward Snowden Stor...

…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 and the investigative effort required will be too much for any one person,” he wrote Poi...

…e incriminated himself further on camera by allowing Poitras to film him actually disclosing NSA’s secret operations to Greenwald. By disclosing classified data to Greenwald, an unauthorized person, he intentionally burned his bridges. What makes this choice intriguing is that t...

…thor. for the next ten days: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. “his first priority”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 43. “That whole period”: Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” He e-mailed Gellman: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’” Gellman could no...

186 The day after his attempt to pressure the Washington Post, he asked Greenwald to drop everything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. He had, it will be recalled, already sent Poitras an enciphered file, and told her she would get the key once she and Greenwald fol...

72 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS course, the similarity of the phrasing might not have been entirely coincidental. Greenwald’s 2012 speech had been put on YouTube and widely circulated on the Internet just a few days before Snowden first wrote to him on December 1, 2012. Snowde...

… I’ll offer to show you where it is, © and at that point we’re good. You simply need to follow naturally.” According to Greenwald’s account, Snowden changed the plan to the upper lobby. “We were to go to the third floor,” Greenwald writes. “We were to wait on a couch near a ‘gian...

…hat is known is the number of documents that Snowden gave to journalists in Hong Kong. As will be recalled, Poitras and Greenwald were “writing partners.” When Greenwald discovered that his copy of the documents were corrupted, Poitras made a copy of the thumb drive that Snowden...

…cause both British law and US. law criminal- ized the disclosure by anyone of communications intelligence. As a lawyer, Greenwald recognized this danger. On the other hand, the NSA documents were far more explosive than the WikiLeaks mate- rial and promised an even greater spike...

…hs after he was in Russia, that he had turned over all the documents he took from the NSA’s compartments to Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong. On August 18, the investigators had the opportunity to examine the files that Snowden had given to Poitras and Greenwald. This discovery...