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l but obliterated between the state and technology companies.” Citing a story in The Washington Post, he continued, “Every day, collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.” Asa result, Greenwald called for action in that blog postin
ut also violated the oath he had signed when he took his job by provid- ing them to an unauthorized party. During this period, Snowden also contacted Barton Gellman, on behalf of The Washington Post, via e-mail. Indeed, while he was staying someplace other than the place he claimed to be staying, he made almost a
, 2013 N THE TWELVE-MINUTE VIDEO on The Guardian's website, Snowden correctly identified himself as an infrastructure analyst at a regional base of the National Security Agency in Oahu, Hawaii. He also revealed in a calm, unemotional voice that he had been the source for the stories in both The Guardian and The Washington Po
ithstanding, Snowden had made plans to seek a haven from American justice well before his meeting them. As early as May 24, 2013, he had suggested to Barton Gellman that he was making arrangements with a foreign government. To that end, he asked Gellman to insert an encrypted key in the Internet version of the NS
nowden deny it. Indeed. He took a measure of credit for the revelation, saying on German TV “What I can say is we know Angela Merkel was monitored by the National Security Agency.” If Snowden’s HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020294 143 had released this document, it would be consistent with Kucherena’s assertion that Snowden had access to
d distributed to journalists. Snowden reinforced this narrative in almost in a series f interviews arranged by Wizner. In December 2013, he met with Barton Gellman of the Washington Post. It was his first face-to- face meeting with a journalist since he had arrived in Russia in June. To advance his narrative , S
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