4
Shared Docs
4
Same-Page
4 / 4
Mentions
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
hich acted as an exchange for drug dealers, assassins, safecrackers, and prostitutes until it was closed down by the FBI in 2013. It was cre- ated by Ross Ulbricht, a Libertarian who wore a Ron Paul T-shirt, as a website where “people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that led back to them
the Berkeley-based technology operative for the Freedom of the Press Foundation; Jacob Appelbaum, the Tor proselytizer; Ben Wizner, the ACLU lawyer; Barton Gellman; and Glenn Greenwald. “It is not me that can’t keep a secret,” Abraham Lincoln joked. “It’s the people I | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 231 @
traveled across the Internet. It could even borrow their Internet identities. To be sure, the NSA also had such a capability. The Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht, discovered to his distress that his Tor software did not make his computer server in Iceland invis- ible. According to a former top official in the
ts but, in a violation of his oath, he provided them to an unauthorized party. He also in Hong Kong, for the first time, directly contacted via email Barton Gellman of the Washington Post. Indeed, it was during these first 11 days during which he was staying someplace other than the place he claimed to be stayin
which acted as an exchange for drug dealers, assassins, safe crackers, and prostitutes until it was closed down by the FBI in 2011. It was created by Ross Ulbricht, a libertarian who wore a Ron Paul t-shirt, “to create a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that led back
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
travelled across the Internet. It could even borrow their Internet identities. To be sure, the NSA also had such a capability. The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht discovered to his distress that his TOR software did not make his computer server in Iceland invisible. According to a former top official in the Jus
Entities connected to both Barton Gellman and Ross Ulbricht

Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Oliver Stone
PERSON
Woody Allen
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Hawaii
LOCATIONUlbricht
PERSON
Mitch McConnell
PERSON
Wilbur Ross
PERSON
Assange
ORGANIZATION
Laura Poitras
PERSON
Micah Lee
PERSON
Glenn Greenwald
PERSON
Booz Allen
PERSON
George Mitchell
PERSON
WikiLeaks
ORGANIZATION
Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Donald Trump
PERSON