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made this point clear in a lengthy interview with Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guard- ian. He told

ght not be totally coincidental. Snowden blamed high officials in the U.S. government who pur- posely “trapped him” in Russia. He told the editor of The Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” He repeated that assertion over

cryptanalysts led by the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing succeeded in build- ing a rudimentary comp

ca, because the CIA can oper- ate with impunity down there,” he explained in the previously cited interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, in 2014. He had already discussed the likelihood of his being captured in Ecuador with Assange before his departure for Moscow. He later told Alan R

Greenwald.” Rolling Stone, Dec. 4, 2013. Risen, James. “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.” New York Times, Oct. 17, 2013. Rusbridger, Alan, and Ewen MacAskill. “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile.” Guardian, July 18, 2014. Sandvik, Runa A. “That One Time I Threw a CryptoParty with Edward S

have caused any harm is preemptively dis- missed as government propaganda. Snowden’s word also is taken over that of government officials because, as The Nation explained, Snowden speaks “truth to power.” Such a formulation of distrust allows those who accept it to dismiss all assertions of government officia

when it suited his purpose. For example, he told Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian, Brian Williams of NBC

g with the intention of staying in Russia, but that the U.S. government “trapped him” at Moscow’s Airport by revoking his passport. He told editor of The Nation magazine: “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled.” He added that the U.S. government “chose to keep me in

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osed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation. He also gave a televised interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in which he explained that since he had no access to the NSA documents in Russia, h