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their pre-existing beliefs. For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater on Novem

ism, which was backed by the Internet billion- aire Pierre Omidyar. Poitras remained in Hong Kong, where she moved, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. The Guardian paid the bill. Her next

skill, whom Poitras had not wanted Greenwald to bring to the initial meeting, joined Poitras and Green- wald in Snowden’s room. Snowden insisted that MacAskill also go through the ritual of stowing his cell phone in the minibar refrigera- tor. Not without irony, Snowden’s own phone can be seen on his bed rec

mander-of-the -us-cyber-command-general-keith-alexander-20140507-itzhw#ixzz3m6TkuRal. 127 “I don’t look at this”: Jeremy Herb and Justin Sink, “Sen. Feinstein Calls Snow- den’s NSA Leaks an ‘Act of Treason,’” Hill, June 6, 2013. 128 duck-rabbit cartoon: Jastrow, Fact and Fable in Psychology, 202-4. 128 “I

ot anybody”: Mark McClish, “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald,” Statement Analysis, Jan. 3, 2013, http:/

n.” 27 “through the system”: Burrough, Ellison, and 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,

t of Interview with General Keith Alexander, Australian Financial Review, May 8, 2014. 28. “Act of treason...” ---Jeremy Herb and Justin Silk. “Sen. Feinstein Calls Snowden’s NSA Leaks “Act of Treason,” The Hi//, June 6, 2013 29.” Rep. Mike Rogers....” Tim Curry, “House Intelligence Chair Hints at Russian

dy...” Statement Analysis: “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald.” http://www.statementanalysis.com/lee-har

USE_OVERSIGHT_020392 241 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon 1. “What I came to feel...” —Snowden quoted in “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview-transc

their pre-existing beliefs. For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater on Novem

urnalists with the atmospherics of “an international spy thriller,” as Greenwald subsequently described the instructions. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020250 | MacAskill had stayed at the W Hotel when Poitras and Greenwald Poitras went to the Mira Hotel. Poitras did not want to bring along an uninvited guest to the fi