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ks documents.) As the days ticked away while Snowden was waiting for Green- wald in Hong Kong, Greenwald was awaiting a green light to go there from Janine Gibson, the editor of the Guardian website, who was based in New York. Under Gibson’s leadership, The Guardian's website had effectively “gone into the busi
o the NSA’s king- dom of global surveillance. Booz Allen held those keys. “He targeted my company because we enjoy more access than other companies,” Booz Allen’s vice-chairman Michael McConnell said with the bene- fit of hindsight. As a result of the theft, he appraised, “an entire gen- eration of intelligence
@ tions he held with the CIA and the DIA, but no effort was made by @ the team of journalists to verify the information. Instead, MacAskill wrote to Janine Gibson in New York, “The Guinness is good.” It was a prearranged code by which MacAskill certified Snowden’s cred- ibility for The Guardian. Gibson told Gre
know they were gone.” However, he was not among the limited number of individuals at the center who had access to these documents. Both the NSA’s and Booz Allen’s employment records showed that Snowden had not yet completed his requisite on-the-job training when he carried out the theft. Consequently, he had no
to 2014, first learned about the impending story in the Guardian on June 4, 2013 while he was in Germany meeting with its top intelligence officials. Janine Gibson, the Guardian’s American website editor had notified the NSA it intended to break a story based on NSA the next day. It took NSA counterintelligence
were gone,” but, as it turned out, he was not among the limited number of individuals at the Center who had access to these documents, The NSA’s and Booz Allen’s employment records showed that Snowden had not yet completed his requisite on-the- job training at the National Threat Operations Center in Hawaii wh
Entities connected to both Janine Gibson and Booz Allen’s

Der Spiegel
ORGANIZATIONKunia
LOCATION
Melbourne
LOCATIONLindsay Mills
PERSON
Harvey Weinstein
PERSONGibson
PERSONTyler Drumheller
PERSON
Wired
ORGANIZATION
Robin Williams
PERSONGellman
PERSON
James Risen
PERSON
Ed Snowden
PERSON
Bradley Manning
PERSONAppelbaum
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Assange
ORGANIZATION
Ledgett
PERSON
Woody Allen
PERSON
Glenn Greenwald
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON