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s many false trails as possible,” she later told an interviewer in Berlin. According to Assange, she booked decoy flights for Snowden to Beijing and New Delhi. She also used Snowden’s credit card number to pay for the flight to India; because the card was blocked, she knew there was a high probability that
am headed by Richard “Rick” Ledgett, who was then director of the NSA’s Threat Opera- tions Center at the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Ledgett was the logical choice to head the damage assessment inves- tigation because the center’s regional branch in Hawaii was under his command. Ledgett fl
n camera in his Hong Kong interview in June 2013 that NSA investi- gators would have “a heart attack” when they discovered the extent of the breach. Ledgett, the NSA official who had conducted the damage assess- ment, while not having a heart attack, confirmed that Snowden had taken a massive number of do
day trip to India. He later said he was on an official visit “working at the US embassy.” Hotel records show that he arrived at the Hyatt Regency in New Delhi on September 2 from Japan and at 3:30 p.m. on September 3 checked into the Koenig Inn, an annex to Koenig Solutions, a school that gave crash courses
ell was transferring files held at Fort Meade to backup computers in Hawaii. He “was moving copies of that data there for them,” said Deputy Director Ledgett, “which was perfect cover for stealing the [NSA] data” through the fall and winter of 2012. The security mea- sures at the Hawaii base presented no o
on an official visit “working at the US embassy.” He was still on the Dell payroll. Hotel records show that he arrived at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Delhi on September 2™ from Japan, and at 3:30 pm on September 3", checked into the Koenig Inn, a facility that was an annex to Koenig Solutions, a school t
position since the top- secret unit was responsible for discovering and countering the threats posed by Chinese, Russian and other adversary nations. Ledgett was also the logical choice to head the damage assessment investigation since the Center’s regional branch in Hawaii was from where highly-sensitive
ny false trails as possible,” she later told an interviewer in Berlin. According to Assange, she booked decoy flights for Snowden to Being, China and New Delhi, India. She also used Snowden’s credit card numbers to pay for the flight to India, She knew that since the card was blocked, there was a high probab
se “bread crumbs” were missed by the NSA according to its statement. It is within the realm of possibility that the NSA Damage Assessment team under Ledgett falsified its finding to inflate the number of documents that Snowden stole. NSA executives also might have lied to Congress to the same end. But why
Entities connected to both New Delhi and Ledgett

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