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gence by the NSA @ was hardly a secret. As the NSA expanded further, it delegated part of its work to regional bases, including ones in Utah, Texas, Hawaii, and Japan. The paramount task of the NSA remained monitoring the channels of communications that an adversary might use. The vast prolifera- tion of
were NSA secrets taken, but secret files from the CIA, the British GCHQ, and America’s cyber military commands had been compro- mised. It was, as Sir David Omand, the former head of the British GCHQ, described it, a “huge strategic setback” for the West. The genie could not be put back into the bottle. There i
ted as a hero for defying the US government. He had not sacrificed himself, he had transformed himself. He had risen from being a lowly technician in Hawaii whose talents went largely unrecognized, to the status of an international media star in Moscow. In his new messianic role, he could make Internet ap
y. Not only NSA secrets, but secret files from the CIA, the British GCHQ, and America’s cyber military commands, had been compromised. It was, as Sir David Omand, the head of the British GCHQ described it, a "huge, strategic setback" for the West. The genie could not be put back in the bottle as there is not a
workers, such as Ames, it is plausible that it spotted Snowden through his Internet rants against U.S. surveillance. Even if it had missed Snowden in Hawaii, a disgruntled ex-civilian employee at the NSA would have received its full attention after he contacted Russian officials in Hong Kong. While the ta
ng jets to get a 29-year-old hacker’,” Washington Times, June 27, 2013 “Angleton told me in...”—Author’s interview with James Jesus Angleton . “Sir David Omand, the...”-- Tom Harper, Richard Kerbaj and Tim Shipman, “British Spies betrayed to Chinese and Russians,” Swnday Times (London), June 14, 2015 . “Ad
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