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oon came from Snowden’s Moscow lawyer. On Sep- tember 23, Anatoly Kucherena was extensively interviewed on the RT channel in Russia. The interviewer, Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show called SophieCo, was a well-admired journalist. She is the granddaughter of Eduard Shevardnadze, a former foreign minis- | | Epst_97
ntractors servicing the NSA. Such “career management,” as it is called by the CIA, could explain why Snowden had switched jobs in March 2013 to Booz Allen Hamilton, which, unlike his previous employer, Dell, allowed | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 160 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019648 The Q
herena before giving up. I also learned from a Russian researcher that Kucherena had not given a single interview since his television interview with Sophie Shevardnadze on September 23, 2013. And no Russian journalist, or ary Moscow-based foreign journalist, had ever obtained an interview with Snowden. At this point,
- sonal data of their independent contractors working at the NSA. The hackers’ group Anonymous took credit for the successful 2011 attack on the Booz Allen Hamilton servers. It also cracked the algo- rithms used to protect employees. It next injected so-called Trojan @ horse viruses and other malicious codes int
: Glenn Greenwald, “Email Exchange Between Edward Snowden and Former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey,” Guardian, July 16, 2013. 171 An answer soon came: Sophie Shevardnadze, “’Snowden Believes He Did Everything Right’: Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena,” SophieCo, RT television, Sept. 23, 2013, //www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden
Major Com- puter Breach, Officials Say,” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2014. 214 successful 2011 attack: Andy Greenberg, “Anonymous Hackers Breach Booz Allen Hamilton,” Forbes, July 11, 2011. 215 acomputer system called e-QIP: Joe Davidson, “Federal Background Check Sys- tem Shut Down Because of ‘Vulnerability, ”
om his Moscow lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. On September 23, 2013, Kucherena had an extensive interviewed on the state owned RT channel. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admired journalist in her own right. She is also the grand-daughter of Edward Shevar
fficiently protect the personal data of their off-premise employees working at the NSA. Consider, for example, the successful 2011 attack on the Booz Allen Hamilton servers. The previously-mentioned hackers' group “Anonymous” took credit for it. It not only breached the security of Booz Allen servers but cracked
ng up. I also learned from a Russian researcher that Kucherena had not given a single interview to any journalist since his television interview with Sophie Shevardnadze on September 23, 2013. And no Russian journalist, or any Moscow-based foreign journalist, had ever obtained an interview with Snowden. At this point,
jor computer breach, officials say,” Washington Post, August 6, 2014 “Successful 2011 attack on...”-- Andy Greenberg, “Anonymous Hackers Breach Booz Allen Hamilton,” Forbes, July 11, 2011 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020419 268 13. “A computer system called E-QIP...”-- Joe Davidson, “ Federal background check system shut
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