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lls for IT jobs from outside contractors. So it had no need for employing a twenty-two-year-old dropout who did not meet its requisites. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that “he had

2012, in which she identified herself as a privacy and security researcher working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. Appelbaum and Sandvik both came in contact with Snowden before he went public and while he was still working for the NSA in Hawaii. In 2012, Snowden become involved in th

g as in mainland China. Even though the CIA kept officers there in 2013, it was considered “hos- tile territory,” according to the former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller. Snowden apparently knew the limits of CIA operations in Hong Kong, which provided him with an envelope of protection. He told Greenwald that he was

s Tor-sponsored CryptoParty activities over the Internet and supplied Runa Sandvik, who worked with Appel- baum, his true name and address in Hawaii. Sandvik had no reason not to share the identity of her co-presenter with others in the Tor movement. Snowden, of course, had his girlfriend make a video of

d Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” CHAPTER 3 Contractor 28 “Much of what I saw”: Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill, “Edward Snowden.” 30 This “free pass”: Tyler Drumheller, interview with author. 30 “So the guy with whom the CIA”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 284. 30 His initial job for Dell: Burrough, Ellison, and

/682257506018672640. 54 “Tor Stinks”: Sean Michael Kerner, “Snowden Leaks Show NSA Targets Tor,” @ E Week, Oct. 4, 2013. @ 55 He would later tell Sandvik: Runa A. Sandvik, “What Edward Snowden Said at the Nordic Media Festival,” Forbes, May 10, 2015. 55 According to Sandvik’s account: Sandvik did not

ogatory comment. He was also threatened with a punitive investigation unless he agreed to quietly resign from the CIA. “It was not a stellar career,” Tyler Drumheller, former CIA station chief told me in 2014. The job in Geneva did have its benefits, however. It provided him a generous housing and travel allowance

, she worked tirelessly to extend TOR’s cloak of anonymity against the surveillance of the NSA and other would-be intruders of privacy. Appelbaum and Sandvik shared another distinction. They both came in contact with Snowden before he went public and while he was still working for the NSA in Hawaii. Snowd

.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New York Times, October 10, 2013 5. “It was not a stellar...”—Author’s interviews with Tyler Drumheller 6. “Snowden’s superior had suspected...”-- Eric Schmitt, “C.L.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New York Times, October

“Appelbaum acted to defeat-...”—George Packer, The Holder of Secrets, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014 “She identified herself in Forbes...’”—Runa A Sandvik, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/ “TOR Stinks...”—Sean Michael Kerner, “Snowden Leaks Show NSA Targets Tor,” E Week, October 4, 2013