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ictures Entertainment allegedly by North Korea that Stone had paid the Guardian $700,000 for the film rights to “The Snowden File,” a book written by Luke Harding. This was not a surprising sum since it provided a basis for movie which describes Snowden’s coup. But these documents also revealed that Stone had p
mestic Surveillance Under Obama.” Along with it was the FISA warrant to Verizon. The PRISM story broke hours later in the Washington Post. Written by Gellman and Poitras, it claimed that the NSA and FBI were tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S, Internet companies which were knowin
e name and provided his credit card, but he was he in contact with three high-profile journalists, two well-known hacktavists and, as he suggested to Gellman, a foreign diplomatic mission. Even if Snowden had failed to persuade the Washington Post to publish a coded identifier, the mission’s interest would
Pictures Entertainment—allegedly by North Korea—that Stone had paid The Guardian $700,000 for the film rights to The Snowden Files, a book written by Luke Harding. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 251 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019739 252 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS These documents also re
ts that could undo the NSA’s intelligence gathering as “the single point of failure.” While still shielding his own identity in May 2013, he wrote to Gellman that U.S. intelligence “will most certainly kill you if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them
ace to Hide, 16-18. Gibson authorized Greenwald's trip: The description of The Guardian’s reac- tion to Greenwald’s offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Harding, a Guard- ian reporter commissioned to write The Snowden Files, a book that Oliver Stone bought the film rights for from The Guardian for $700,000. S
”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Rev- elations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 48 violate U.S. espionage laws: Michael Hayden, interview wit
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Department of Justice
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Marc Rich
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Alan Dershowitz
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George Mitchell
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George W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Ronald Reagan
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Glenn Greenwald
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Vladimir Putin
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Virginia Giuffre
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Mitch McConnell
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WikiLeaks
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Ecuador
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Woody Allen
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Oliver Stone
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David Rodgers
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